Maybe I can fill in a few blanks, someone please correct me if I'm wrong. At 10:39 14/02/97 +1000, Leon Martin wrote: >Nick, >> (snip - description of "blank filenames" problem) >I've had this problem before also. However we DID get all our files back. I >haven't done this for a while and my memory is a bit average but I think we >found the following: >In the case of a `blank' named directory I couldn't use or delete it but >was able to rename it. I just give it a name like DEAD and leave it till >the next disk re-format! I think what you renamed was the directory *containing* the blank name, not the blank named entity itself. >Our experience, when you have a dir of files with a blank named file in the >middle, was that we couldn't see any files past the blank one with the BD >file utilities. However, if we exit the BD software and use the HP system >FILER program, we could see the files and then copy them elsewhere. >After that I used the FILER to delete all the files from that dir. I've been able to recover all files *except* the blank-named one(s), using exactly this method. I think Nick's problem was compounded because one or more blank names were in the top level (root) directory, so it could not be left there till later. >Leon. Your memory is remarkable good Leon, but I probably had this problem a bit more recently.. didn't you teach me those tricks nearly 10 years ago? My last repeat was '93 or '94. Long Live Pascal 3.22! :-; Joseph. -- Joseph Webster, Flow Cytometry Lab Centenary Institute Locked Bag No.6, NEWTOWN, NSW 2042, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61-2-9565-6110 Fax: +61-2-9565-6101
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