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Article #39932Fatal fragmentation?
From: Barry Chern
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1989 02:24
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1989 02:24
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Has anyone ever heard of a desktop becoming fatally fragmented? I recently saw
a couple of floppies die right before my eyes in a way that led me to consider this
as a possible cause. I was working on cleaning up my archive of PD type
downloads, copying things from disk to disk and deleting them from their
original location. Right before the moment of doom I noticed an extreme
slowness in the response of an icon as I would try to drag it, even for a
fraction of an inch in the same window. I would simply be trying to rearrange
things cosmetically, and the sucker would just sit there for what seemed like
an eternity (could have been a whole second) before following the mouse. I
remember thinking "maybe I need to rebuild this desktop." But the next time I
inserted the disk it was unreadable.
I've seen a lot of disks mysteriouly expire between uses, but this was the
first time I've actually seen peculiar behaviour right before it occurred.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!mstar!westfort!bluebum From: bluebum@westfort.UUCP (Barry Chern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Fatal fragmentation? Message-ID: <2128@westfort.UUCP> Date: 11 Mar 89 02:24:47 GMT Reply-To: westfort!bluebum@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Outside the Asylum at the Western Fortress Lines: 15