Re: Help with ProDOS file structure!

[phandel@sempco.uucp (Peter Handel)]

>Your problem is that all the blocks but the first have been
>deallocated. In addition to correcting the length of the file and
>blocks used count, you would have to find each block that was
>originally part of the file, get them in order, and reconstruct the
>mapping
 
I often optimize my HD, so they should all be in order.
 
>>What I do is copy a big file onto a 3.5" disk, and then manually copy the
>>important file block by block onto the dummy file on the 3.5".  This works,
>>but it takes time and is dangerous.
 
>Anything you try to solve this problem is dangerous, and takes lots of
>time. It is always much easier to undelete a file than to lengthen it.
 
The problem is that the file is present, it's not actually deleted!  It's
just a lot shorter than I want it to be
 
>Too bad...
 
Thanks, tho...
 
And what's a "Case Implementation?"

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