> General question - what does RENAME do if you are moving a file > between directories and it can't find the source .DIR? Huh? If RENAME "can't find the source .DIR", then why would it do any more than fail because it can't find the file to rename? > The reason for my question is that I was wondering if the files in the > failed directory have known names and RENAME will be able to insert them > into a new directory even if the old directory is broken. I'd expect ANAL/DISK/REPA to disconnect any files in what's left of the damaged directory, and put them into a healthy [SYSLOST] directory, from which I'd be free to reassign them at will, so I doubt that I care what RENAME might do with files in a damaged source directory. (If it could do anything with them.)