Re: GS/OS Bad Directory Error

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <bongini.214.2FA58A44@law3.law.ucla.edu> bongini@law3.law.ucla.edu
(STEPHEN BONGINI) writes:
>	I have a HD partition that has nothing by Prodos 8 files on it (
>Appleworks 3.0 & Appleworks files).  In Prodos 8, Appleworks can read all of 
>the files & there are no errors (even when verify in Copy2Plus is used).  
>However, in GS/OS 6.0.1, when I try to use ShrinkitGS to archive the files I 
>keep getting a error for a bad directory ($51 I think).  It gives the error 
>whenever I try to go into any subdirectory of a certain subdirectory.  
>Additionally, Shrinkit (8 bit) is able to archive the files without a 
>problem.  
>	
>	I think this may have also happened at another time.  Is there a 
>reason GS/OS would see a bad directory when Prodos 8 does not see a 
>problem & can access all the files?  Will removing just the offending 
>subdirectory fix this or will I have to re-initialize the partion to fix 
>this?  Any help would be appreciated.

I've experienced similar symptoms myself once or twice.  My copy of the
Styleware Font Library Volume 1 disk has a subdirectory that makes System
6.0.1 choke.  It's a rather large subdirectory, and System 6.0.1 can read
the first half of it with no problem, but trying to access the second half
of the subdirectory just returns complaints about damaged directories.

ProDOS 8 has no problem at all with this directory, and neither do earlier
versions of GSOS.  I've examined the directory carefully by hand, and I
can't find anything even remotely wrong with it.  It passes through
Salvation Deliverance with a clean bill of health.

I never did figure out what the problem was.  I finally just worked around
it by using ProDOS 8 to copy all the files onto another disk, putting them
into two smaller directories instead of one big directory.

              - Neil Parker
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