FatPage® '98 Features
User Advisory

FatPage98: Deleting FatPage Web in Root Directory Erases Drive Contents

Last reviewed: May 7, 1998
Article ID: QR8088030
The information in this article applies to:

Mega$loth® FatPage®98 for Windoze®

SYMPTOMS

When you delete a disk-based web that was created in the root of a hard disk, such as the root of drive C, the entire contents of the disk drive are erased, including hidden, system, and read-only files.

CAUSE

FatPage® converts the root drive to a FatPage® Web.

[Ed.: Really! What is a FatPage® Web?]

RESOLUTION

Always create a disk-based Web in a subfolder of the root of the hard disk. To do this, follow these steps:

• 1. Start FatPage® Exploder.
• 2. On the File menu, click [New FatPage Web].
• 3. In the New FatPage Web dialog box, select the type of web you want.
• 4. Click Change.
• 5. In the Change Location dialog box, type the path for your FatPage® Web by using this syntax
  <x>:\<webname>
  where <x> represents the disk drive where you want the FatPage® Web created and <webname> is the subfolder.
• 6. Click [OK].
• 7. Click [OK].

  Ed: Why twice?

• 8. If you are prompted to create the directory, click [Yes].
• 9. If you are prompted to convert the folder to a FatPage® Web, click [Yes].

  Ed.: Why do you need to say if - aren't you sure?

STATUS

Mega$loth® has confirmed this to be a problem in the Mega$loth® products listed at the beginning of this article.

Ends

We leave you to judge how much of this is satire and how much is real!

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