Re: Broken directory

2013-06-30 Thread Christopher Dewhurst
In message mpro.mp5l7i03cirzk01ob.li...@stevefryatt.org.uk
  Steve Fryatt li...@stevefryatt.org.uk wrote:

 On 28 Jun, John Williams wrote in message
 53630be066joh...@ukgateway.net:

 In article 7f76f76253.cri...@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com,
Christopher Dewhurst cdewhurst2...@btinternet.com wrote:
 
 Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
 Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
 looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports Broken directory if
 I try to delete or move it.
 
 Any way out?
 
 If you can rename it to, say,  so it gets put out of the way at the
 bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
 populate.

 Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
 isn't very happy.  I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
 DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.

thanks for the tips. Running DiscKnight does indeed report errors 
within !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf. I think an investment in the full 
version may be in order (I think the Repair option is disabled on 
the free version).

Although RISC OS threw a wobbler in the process,renaming 
Choices.WWW.Netsurf to  seemed to work for the time being.

thanks,
Chris
--

Christopher Dewhurst



Re: Broken directory

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 30 Jun, Christopher Dewhurst wrote in message
0f86116453.cri...@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com:

 In message mpro.mp5l7i03cirzk01ob.li...@stevefryatt.org.uk
   Steve Fryatt li...@stevefryatt.org.uk wrote:
 
  Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
  isn't very happy.  I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
  DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.
 
 thanks for the tips. Running DiscKnight does indeed report errors within
 !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf. I think an investment in the full version may
 be in order (I think the Repair option is disabled on the free version).
 
 Although RISC OS threw a wobbler in the process,renaming
 Choices.WWW.Netsurf to  seemed to work for the time being.

Just be aware that if your disc map is corrupted, then you've no real idea
if it's saving new or modified files over existing files that you'd quite
like to keep. If DiscKnight is reporting errors, personally I would stop
using the system until the map had been fixed.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/



Re: Broken directory

2013-06-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:45:04PM +, Christopher Dewhurst wrote:
 Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed 
 Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I 
 looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports Broken directory 
 if I try to delete or move it.
 
 Any way out?
 
 (Using NS 3.1 Dev #1264 on Raspberry Pi but I think the problem has 
 been around for a week or two)

Your file system is broken.  This is a RISC OS problem as FileCore is
delicate to crashes and power outages.  Either rename it out of the way,
reformat/restart the whole thing, or invest in Dave Ruck's excellent
!Disknight to fix the problem.

B.



Re: Broken directory

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 28 Jun, John Williams wrote in message
53630be066joh...@ukgateway.net:

 In article 7f76f76253.cri...@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com,
Christopher Dewhurst cdewhurst2...@btinternet.com wrote:
 
  Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
  Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
  looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports Broken directory if
  I try to delete or move it.
 
  Any way out?
 
 If you can rename it to, say,  so it gets put out of the way at the
 bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
 populate.

Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
isn't very happy.  I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/



Broken directory

2013-06-28 Thread Christopher Dewhurst
Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed 
Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I 
looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports Broken directory 
if I try to delete or move it.

Any way out?

(Using NS 3.1 Dev #1264 on Raspberry Pi but I think the problem has 
been around for a week or two)

thanks

-- 
Christopher Dewhurst



Re: Broken directory

2013-06-28 Thread John Williams
In article 7f76f76253.cri...@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com,
   Christopher Dewhurst cdewhurst2...@btinternet.com wrote:

 Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed 
 Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I 
 looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports Broken directory 
 if I try to delete or move it.

 Any way out?

If you can rename it to, say,  so it gets put out of the way at the
bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
populate.

John