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bluedevils

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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2006, 03:08:23 pm »
yeah I cannot say whether tree explorer is a factor because I mainly use commandline to delete things.
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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2006, 04:07:01 pm »
I was being careful, because I wanted to see what all the files and directories were used for, before I deleted them. I'm not sure about DOS, if you can delete a directory you are currently residing in. I assume by your question, about being inside a directory while deleting it, this can cause problems or errors in the filesystem. Is this true? I'll make sure I don't do this in the future if it causes problems.

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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2006, 04:17:24 pm »
I was just probing for a cause as too what might hold the filesystem from correctly removing references to the files.  I can't say I know why.

Since you are in the learning mood.  I learned that it is better to use commandline over a gui for file management because the gui uses temp files and have a harder time with larger files.  It fills the file system.  Commandline does not do this, so a move is a direct move without using extra filesystem space.  BTW be carefull commandline can be very unforgiving (no "are you sure?" messages)
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I'm now an iphone user and use my zaurii as serial terminals, perl and shell scripting and when I need 640x480 screens

sl-c3100/pda cacko 1.23 | sl-6000l/needs battery | sl-c760/server pdaxrom rc12 | Former sl-5500/tkcrom owner (sister's birthday gift)