Document 1203
DELWATCH TIPS
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Description:

If Delwatch has been enabled and an end-user then compresses his
disk he will receive an error message from Delwatch indicating
that compressed drives cannot be Delwatched. Because of the
dynamic nature of the compressed drive any memory resident
delete tracking utility will have trouble with SuperStor.
However, utilities such as Diskmap will work on the compressed
drive. This type of utility makes a copy of the FAT to use for
recovery.

Superstor will compress pending delete files so be sure and
perform a Delpurge of the pending delete files to remove them
from the disk before compressing the drive.

It is highly recommended that Delwatch be turned off and the
pending delete files be purged prior to compressing the drive.

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Description:

Delwatch is also reported to cause problems with Norton's
Speedisk and Disk Doctor. This may also be true of other
utilites such as PCTools' Diskfix. The applications in question
think of the pending delete files as lost clusters or invalid
directories. The problem is due to the fact that when a file is
deleted with Delwatch the cluster chain in the FAT is left
intact and the filename in the directory has the first character
replaced with an ascii 05dec. Programs can think of this
character as an indication of a corrupted directory entry.

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Description:

Because of the way Delwatch keeps pending files some programs
may think that they have run out of disk space as they check the
disk with a direct call on free space. If this happens just have
the end-user perform a delpurge to clear the necessary space for
the application and reinstall.