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    From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to DOVE-Net.Unix_Discussion on Tue May 25 12:32:22 2010
    I moved my bbs to a linux system because the harddrive I had used with
    Windows was failing. I recently noticed that a lot of files in the file
    areas are bad. I am looking for a script or info on writing one to:

    Check through the filebase (multiple directories and files) and then
    rename it and/or move to another directory so I can try to find them
    on the web or something and get them again.

    So far I am googling through bash websites and seeing what i can find.

    Any tips?

    Thanks!

    Mindless Automaton
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  • From Jame@VERT/ROCASA to Mindless Automaton on Tue May 25 21:46:00 2010
    I moved my bbs to a linux system because the harddrive I had used with Windows was failing. I recently noticed that a lot of files in the file areas are bad.

    In what way are they bad?


    Jame

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Jame on Sat Mar 8 21:47:40 2025
    Jame wrote:
    I moved my bbs to a linux system because the harddrive I had used with Windows was failing. I recently noticed that a lot of files in the file areas are bad.

    In what way are they bad?

    End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
    a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
    latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
    the last disk(s) of this archive.


    -Mindless Automaton
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  • From Jame@VERT/ROCASA to Mindless Automaton on Sun May 30 09:55:00 2010
    Jame wrote:
    I moved my bbs to a linux system because the harddrive I had used with Windows was failing. I recently noticed that a lot of files in the file areas are bad.

    In what way are they bad?

    End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
    a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
    latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
    the last disk(s) of this archive.

    Ah, it looks like the zip archives got corrupted. And they were likely that way before being put on the Linux system, considering what you said about he harddrive failing... (If you haven't already tried it, the "-F" option might be useful with the problem files. Only test that with copies of the files, though...)



    Jame

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