OS X Help Please

Charles Martin chasm at mac.com
Mon Mar 17 16:19:02 PST 2003


> From: "Luke Hinman" <louis.hinman at attbi.com>
>
> does anyone know what "overlapped extent allocation (file 257447d)" 
> means,
> under **Checking  Catalog file, when running fsck. can't fix? thanks. 
> (p.s.
> safe boot and cmd-op-o-f, reset-all had no effect. just blue screen, 
> lots of
> disc activity and flashing desktop pictures every few seconds...

It means your directory is SERIOUSLY hosed. If your machine can boot 
into OS 9, then DiskWarrior can probably fix it, but other than that 
your only options are a) time to bring it to the shop or b) wipe the 
drive and start over.

_Chas_

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