Leonard,

   What Tracy spells out below is perfect.  One more suggestion, though:
Log on or CHGROUP to the group you want to purge, perform the PURGEGROUP
while your in it, and you won't have to re-build your group!  You will get
the message: "In use. Can't be Purged. (CIERR 916), but the files will be
gone!

Hope this helps,

Chris the geek
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I Leonard,

Here's 2 old tricks from the Classic days:

STORE the files you want to delete to tape with the PURGE parameter.

or if that doesn't work (this is the final solution):

STORE the files you want to keep, PURGEGROUP, rebuild the
group, then RESTORE those files.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard S. Berkowitz
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: PRIV files that will not be purged
>
>
> We have several TurboImage chunk files that nothing can
> purge. They are all that
> is left of a data base that we are trying to restore onto a
> secondary system
> from a store tape from our primary system.
>
> Since they are PRIV files, I cannot use MPE/iX, even with SM
> capability. I have
> a command file that I use in MPEX that says it is purging the
> files and even
> report how many sectors (lots!) have been saved. I can run
> the same command file
> repeatedly and get the same display, but the files are still
> there. If I run
> MPEX: LISTF database,DB, all I see is a list of the chunks.
>
> I tried FSCHECK, but FSCHECK does not accept HFS syntax <sigh!>
>
> We spoke to an HP engineer last night who spent time looking
> in the data base.
> He checked and found no directory, label or extent
> corruption. The solution:
> write a program that GETsPRIVMODE, FCLOSE with a
> disposition=4. "What about
> FOPEN?", I asked. "Nothing in the data base about FOPEN", he
> said. "Where do I
> get the file number?", I countered. "Very good question." he
> responded. "I'll
> have a language engineer call you in the morning." No, he did
> not suggest two
> aspirin, but I took some anyway.
>
> Has anyone seen this? Can anyone offer some insight? a quick solution?
>
> Thanks.
> ===================
> Leonard S. Berkowitz
> Perot Health Care Systems
> (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
> voice: 617-509-1212
> fax:   617-509-3737
> pager: 781-226-2431
>

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