Disk Utility: Error: "illegal name" - cannot fix !
well my G5 started losing menu items for no reason, so i put 'Disk Utility' to work, from another start-up drive, and this was the result: "volume could not be repaired" - here is the log:
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Verify and Repair disk Tiger_400
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
The volume Tiger_400 could not be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired
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I have done an extensive search (and edit), of all possible 'offending text characters' in filenames, it has taken most of the day, these 400GB HD's and 500,000 files later...
any help will be greatly appreciated in tracking down the problem
many thanks...