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Re: *CheckMap Error

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From: James Vaughan
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:09
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S.Hickinbottom@lut.ac.uk wrote:

: I've just started getting an error when I do a *checkmap command - when it seems
: to have checked the entire map it then says "map inconsistent with directory
: tree". What's going on? I thought *CheckMap would offer to overwrite the
: bad map, or is this a different case?
: 
: Should I be on my knees looking skyward, or what?

I had this problem too, on my 40meg Watford drive...
As it didn't seem to matter if I ignored it, that's exactly what I did.
I don't know if this is such a good idea however; it may be better to backup the
drive and re-format it.


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