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Hi Mike!
Saw your post about Diskwarrior and overlapped files the other day, and
finally have a chance to share my experience with the same problem.
Here's the dialog between me and Jorg at Alsoft:
Question_or_Problem:
Disk Warrior has been running 13 hours now, and has found 3986
overlapped files so far. Any idea if it's worth continuing the run?
(My teenaged son was on my machine, screwed something up, then tried to
fix it with an old Norton Utilities version 4 CD). Internal is
unbootable; Finder says it "cannot be found."
--Mark
Mac OS Version: Mac OS 8.6
Mac Model: G3 blue+white
Mac Processor: G3 (PPC 750)
Mac RAM: 256
(Alsoft Comments)
Whether you continue to allow DiskWarrior to run or not is up to you. It
will eventually finish the job and give you back a working directory. If
you need the computer right now and all the files are backed up then you
may want to stop the process. Remember if you stop it and then decide to
restart DiskWarrior it will take another thirteen hours to get back to
this point. If all the files are backed up it would be more efficient to
reformat the disk and restore the files.
If you decide to continue on what will happen is that DiskWarrior will
give you a report. At this time you can look at a preview disk and if
you have the capability you can back up the files from here. If you go
on to replace the directory what will happen is that DiskWarrior will
separate the overlapped files. Let's say file a and file b are
overlapped, DiskWarrior will copy file b to another spot on the disk.
With 3986 files that could fill up the disk. At that point you will have
a working disk and you can most likely restart the computer from the
disk but there will still be overlapped files. If this occurs copy some
of the files off the disk then trash those files and run DiskWarrior
again to allow it to finish unoverlapping the files.
(Jorg of Alsoft)
(Mark's comments later-Mike)
...
Disk Warrior ran 70 hours and then it fixed every damn thing!!!
Actually, it blew off while repairing the overlapped files after
replacing the directory, but I found an alias in Damaged Items that was
2GB in size, trashed that, reran DW, and it adjusted disk space used to
the correct 5.5 GB of 6GB disk, pretty much ignored the overlapped files
thing, and finished in just a few minutes.
I'm a very happy camper, especially since the boy finally admitted that
he'd run Norton 4 not just once--but SIX Times!
Thanks again for your help, especially the sentence: "It will eventually
finish the job and give you back a working directory." There were many
times between 11:21 p.m. Thursday and approximately 9 p.m. Sunday, when
as I watched the "overlapped files" count slowly rise through the
thousands to a final count of 10,756, that only your words and a
stubborn disposition kept me from just reformatting the drive.
--Mark"
I've had Diskwarrior save my bacon many times, but it never took more than a few minutes until the Powerbook HD was trashed. I consider it one of the 'must-have' Mac disk utilities.
