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Were you swapping/paging???
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 03:51:20PM

Sorry but I have to warn you given my fresh - and scary- experience. Obviously, moving the swap files to a partition where there are other files (I'm talking of my big files plus Macos 9) messes everything up. For me, it just changed the owner of all the folders situated at the 1st level of the partition where I put the swap files (but not the files of folders inside those 1st level folders). As a result, I wasn't able to move, delete, modify any of those folders, as I got each time an error saying that this was impossible because any folder at stake belonged to root. Very annoying. Hopefully I was able, thanks to Alex281, cheers mate, to reallocate the owner name to me.

Now it works, but at a point I thought that my whole second partition was totally f... up.

PS: I used Swapcop to move the files



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