[iyonix-support] Re: Hard disc problems

On Wed 20 Dec, Tony Abbey wrote:
> 
> On Dec 20, 2006 08:38 PM, David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 20 Dec 2006 Tony Abbey <afa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I ran discknight and it showed that the disc is OK.
> > 
> > In which case they are all valid directories and not multiple spurious
> > ones
> > appearing because of a map corruption as I first suspected.
> > 
> > > I couldn't see how to use it to remove the thousands of directories
> > > created
> > > by Aemulor, so I am in the process of running a BASIC program to go
> > > to each
> > > directory, delete the Log file and then the directory.
> > 
> > Can't you just delete from the filer?
> 
> No - it takes several minutes to update the window on the desktop for
> each deletion because of the number of files.

Why not as my collegue here says, close the directory once you have started
the deletion.


Chris Evans

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