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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:16:59 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Cc:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?
Message-ID:  <DAC29ADC-0FBC-4644-B13B-3B007F2716D5@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050628203547a17185@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <42C20ADE.8080608@mykitchentable.net> <ef10de9a050628203547a17185@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names.

They appear like valid filenames to me (and like the names you get  
with courier for messages)

The issue is that tar is getting a file list and then the user is  
downloading (POP) or deleting or changing the status of a message  
(like reading it -- the filename itself encodes the read, deleted,  
etc status of a message) before tar actually archives it.  Or  
something like that.  The file system is changing out from underneath  
the OP.

make a snapshot first if this is an issue.

Chad


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