Re: Gigantic undeletable files, dated in the future
- From: Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:36:16 -0400
"Honey Parker" <charlotte.mordin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with a disaster that has befallen
music files on an external hard drive. I am using Windows XP2.
An unknown cause seems to have renamed directories and classified them
as files - I figure they were previously directories because of their
size, around 2 GB (3 million KB or so,
I know this is a quibble, but it's extremely unlikely that these
things were ever directories. A directory is a special type of file,
but generally a rather small one. It contains entries for each file or
subdirectory in the directory. Each entry consists of the file or
subdir's name, some time stamps (created, modified, accessed),
property flags, and some kind of pointer to its actual location on the
disk (varies according to the file system being used). Even if there
were thousands of files and subdirs, this would end up being in the
tens of megabytes, nowhere near the gigabytes you're talking about.
Apparently you're thinking that all the files in the directory have
been concatenated together into one huge blob. I suppose that's
possible but it wouldn't be simple. Whatever caused these things to
appear, it's not likely that they are mutated directories.
--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
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