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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 08:52:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To: "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: netscape 2.0b1 fouls directory
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On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE) wrote:

> > > Netscape 2.0b1 created a directory ~/.netscape-cache which cannot be rm'd.
> > > I mv'd it to .foo and restart netscape which recreated the file .netscape 

> > > How can I repair this netscape damage ?

> The *exact* same thing happened to me.  I rebooted into single user mode, 
> fsck'd the partition, and it removed the directory.  When I ran Netscape 
> again, it worked as normal.  It probably only stuffs thing up when 
> "upgrading" the old .netscape files.
> 
> This was done as "root".

Yes, running fsck this way does the repair, great ! Thanks !

kim

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