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Old 03-14-2005, 04:39 PM
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crosslinked files

Hi,

I've got a G4 powermac with an 80Gb HD that I've discovered using TechToolPro has a number of crosslinked files on it. The machine seems to take a longer time than it once did to boot up but seems ok once running. TechToolPro is unable to sort out the crosslinking.

My question is, does anyone know if I use SuperDuper to duplicate the entire volume to another HD (I'm waiting for delivery of another internal drive), will the duplication process resolve the crosslinked files or will it simply copy them as they are to the new HD?

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Old 03-14-2005, 05:06 PM
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Hi, BFG -- we'll copy the *files* as-is, which means that if two files are crosslinked and share the same data, we'll copy the share data into each file, but the crosslink itself won't be present. (If copying them gives an error, though, we'll stop.)

It doesn't "resolve" the error, as such, but the resulting disk won't be crosslinked, at least, as long as the crosslinks don't indicate further damage that would prevent a copy.
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Old 03-15-2005, 03:10 AM
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Thanks for the rapid reply Dave.

That's good news - will give it a go when my drive arrives. Don't really want to trash everything and start again. Will gladly buy the full version if I'm successful.

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OK. Do realize that there are crosslinks on the source, so the files -- even if copied as they are on the drive, and end up without crosslinks, they may not be "OK" since they're sharing data with other files on the drive.

I hope I'm making sense here...
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Old 03-16-2005, 03:40 PM
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OK Dave,

I've nothing to loose at this stage, I'll copy the files across and see how it goes. I suspect the crosslinked files have something to do with Norton Utils which I've now thrown in the bin.

Thanks again, will let the forum know how it goes.
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Old 03-16-2005, 04:21 PM
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Possibly. Be very careful about uninstalling Symantec/Norton stuff -- there are a lot of bits all over the place!
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