🚀 go-pugleaf

    A local member of our (PaNorAMa) user group has run into an
 "interesting" problem:
>|
>|I have a dir/Drawer on my harddrive that has mysteriously grown
>|thousands (yes 1000's) of files that cannot be deleted or moved.  The
>|files seem to be an .info file from another dir on the Hdrive. When I
>|try to open the dir the machine starts to read and fills the screen and
>|then the cli just shuts down.  I can't get into it by any means (
>|Diskmaster, Cli, SID, etc.) and can't get rid of it by moving the dir to
>|ram: either as the cli locks up again.  Is there any solution to this
>|problem?  When I try to delete the file a error messages says that the
>|file was not found.
>|
>What you've got there is the infamous recursive directory. There _may_
>be a way to fix it with a disk editor, but I don't know how. If you
>can't get it to stop pointing back at itself.
>
    Is there a simple solution?
    Is there an elegant solution?
    Is there a solution short of backup & reformat?
    If the solution involves sector editting, can someone supply
 step by step instructions (or pointers to same)?
    <-Harvey

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      Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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