[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now every time I requested something out of the smsq_ directory SMSQ/E > had to look through 1000 deleted entries to finally find the one with > the directory. The morale: create your directories first.
How I remember that problem very well indeed. When I wrote WinBack (many centuries ago) I included a utility which was run and extracted the entire directory structure of the current hard drive. This was saved to a floppy as a small (but perfectly formed) SuperBasic program that you were advised to run before restoring a backup. The very reason for this was, as you have found, because when you create the files first and then convert to a directory, you get a seriously 'fragmented' directory. The utility prevented that by rebuilding the structure first so that the subsequent restore would put the files back into a directory. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
