Ive edited the directory of a disk image and then cleaned it with the “Clean” option in the user menu of disk image panels. Why did I lose the end of the directory?
There’s a serious problem with early versions of Dir Master (by Wim Taymans), which is the most wide-spread directory editor around. When you insert some phantom files into the directory (e.g. deleted files whose names make up the logo of your group) then the size of the directory grows. When you save it back onto your disk or disk image then some new sectors are filled up with the new data. However, the software forgets to allocate these new sectors: the BAM disk copier won’t copy them and the disk image cleaner will destroy all data inside them. Validate your BAM with the “Validate” function in the user menu or manually in the disk editor before copying or cleaning. Alternatively, you can switch to “Safe BAM disk copy” mode and the directory track will be fully copied during a BAM disk copy. Similarly, use “Safe clean” for cleaning disk images and not a single byte will be harmed on the directory track. • Q: I know that a diskpacked ZipCode archive contains all the data found on a 35
