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a possible culprit
I support over 400 Macs at a school. I usually get about one person a month come to me with this problem. For me, DiskWarrior always repairs the directory, but sometimes I still have to replace the damaged files with intact ones. In every case (under OS 9), the culprit is LimeWire. No lie: the cross-linked files are ALWAYS LimeWire downloads. So far, I've only seen this problem twice on OS X machines, but one case it was with LimeWire downloads, and once (on my own computer, no less) it was in Acquisition downloads. Now I'm very leery of these Gnutella clients--though perhaps the problem is with Apple's JVM.
a possible culprit
Ok, so I must've pissed off the computer gods with my previous post. Last night, I had a kernel panic. Booted back up in single user mode, ran fsck, and found dozens of files with overlapped extensions and a couple multi-linked files. Using the advice on this thread, I found that they were all Chimera cache files. Deleted them, re-ran fsck, and am humming along happily again. So add my old copy of Chimera (2002122004) to the list of programs that don't clean up nicely after themselves. (Any sense in upgrading to a newer version of Chimera/Camino?)
Limewire
After 4 days I finally found someone that noted Limewire as being the problem. |
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