Deleting a lockfile

Richard Kreiss rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
Wed Apr 6 10:39:06 PDT 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenb at fptech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: Deleting a lockfile
> 
> On 4/5/2011 5:17 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
> >> My shot-in-the-dark out-of-the-blue guess...
> >>
> >> They shift-clicked on "lockfile", thereby selecting everything from
> >> the currently-selected item (which defaults to the first filename)
> >> through the lockfile.  And, given that there probably weren't any J,
> >> K, or L files
> > (aside from
> >> "lockfile"), that could be seen as "everything in that folder
> >> starting
> > with A
> >> through I".
> >
> > I think you are correct.
> >
> > I was able to reinstall most of what was deleted except some new
> > selection sets that I don't normally copy to my test bed.  Looks like
> > I will have to start copying these also.
> >
> > If they had caught this early enough and the person who deleted the
> > files had not logged off of his terminal server session, we might have
> > been able to recover these files.
> 
> And people say there's no use for a data ("starts with 'a' through 'l'")
> segment.  :-)
> 
> BTW, does logging off a terminal server session empty the recycle bin?

Yes, the recycle bin is emptied.

Richard

> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody




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