SmartFileSystem V 1.279 On The Amiga Some FACTS...

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Fast De-Fragmentation Routines (Built In and 100% Transparent To The User) (No Need To De-frag)...

No need to defrag, that is wrong. SFS has built-in defragmentation that can run in the background still allowing applications to use that disk but you must still run degragmentation from external application.

File Names Of Up To 127 Characters...

AmigaOS 3.1 allows only up to 107 characters. Some other filesystems may support up to 255 characters or even more. But in AmigaOS 3.1 you are still limited to 107 characters.

Supports Notification & ExamineAll...

ExAll() support is not vital. It speeds up dir scanning but DOS can emulate ExAll() if it is missing.

Option To Have A Special Directory That Can Contain Up To The Last 350 Files That You Have Deleted...

Only up to 350 files? Are you sure? You can change limit (at least in MorphOS) up to 16384 files although I dont recommend doing so. (Using large .recycled dir fragments disk very fast.)

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Never use this option (always have it switched off) and yes the docs clearly state that "up to 350 file" can be stored in this special file recovery drawer...

To be honest I don't see the point in it as it's very rare if ever I delete a file by accident or need to recover something I have deliberately deleted.

It can be useful when coding. Sometimes when I have edited some text file I might get strange idea to check again what original was 20 revisions ago.

Generally I dont see any reason to restore deleted files. Maybe when I accidentally overwrite something but anyway.

Seems to be a Mac thing and something I find useless too on the Mac having to empty it's Trash all the time, waste of storage space if you ask me... :-)

There is Trashcan in Amiga Workbench although I dont know anyone using it.

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I always make a backup of any source code no matter how trivial it may seem at the time, as quite often parts of the code come in handy for other projects...

Sure, I have backup in CVS/SVN repository but not something what you edited 5 minutes ago. Now if I could get an access to BlacksEditor source code I'd like to make some improvements there regarding backup feature...

Speaking of that does anyone know what happened to author and if source code could be obtained still?