[iyonix-support] Re: Hard disc problems

On Dec 21, 2006 10:40 AM, Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

So what command do I use to delete multiple directories each with one
file in?

Tony

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