"unable to open your tool"

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Post some screenshots of what you see when you look at the icon properties, especially the "default tool" section.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Mike, you either have a HUGE display or extremely tiny hands! :lol:

Um, it's pretty big. #TWSS?  :lol:

[tonyvdb]

Here you go, a screenshot of what is happening...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Aaah!  It appears you've changed the icon type of your Music: partition from a disk into a Tool.  

Right-click and get the properties for any of your other partitions (assuming any of the others do still work).  You should be able to see the difference.

Edit, hold on, I'm still having a hard time understanding your screenshot.  So you have a partition called "Music:", and inside that you have a program called "PT315", is that correct?  Do you have Dopus or any other file manager utility installed?  If not, drop down to the shell and get a directory listing of Music:.  You might be missing the file for PT315 - in other words, you have the .info icon file, but not the program itself.  Or the protection bits for it got changed.

Do this:  drop down to the shell and type this, and post a screenshot:

Code: [Select]

list music:


[tonyvdb]

How do I undo that or at least fix it? I can just copy everything to my work drawer if need be temporarily
Ok, maybe you see that screenshot wrong, the (tool) is the protracker icon not the music partition.

[tonyvdb]

Yes that is the protracker program and that is all there is for the program. There is nothing else with it even on the floppy and both the floppy and the one I have in work work just fine. Other files are doing this also in games directory as well. I get the same message.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Side thought:  are you using a mechanical hard drive or a CF or similar?  Possible your hard drive might be beginning to fail?

Try dragging the PT315 icon into RAM: and running it from there.  Any difference?

For the heck of it, I just downloaded PT315 from Aminet.  Runs fine for me, but my goodness, is that a strange interface.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I was able to replicate your error by mucking up the protection bits on the file.  This can also happen accidentally (for example, when copying a file).  Please post a directory listing to verify if this is the issue you're having.  See attached screenshot!  

[tonyvdb]

Just watching a tv show with the wife, I'll get back to this later. Ya ya I know my priorities are in the wrong place

[tonyvdb]

Ok here is the shell Music:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hrm.  If you drag PT315 to RAM:, it runs?

[tonyvdb]

Yes
What is the maximum size a partition can be on OS3.1?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Yes
What is the maximum size a partition can be on OS3.1?

Good thread on that here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50628

(esp. the answers from Thomas)

How is your drive partitioned, and what file system?  Are you getting file transfer errors or file corruption?  Or just that one error message?  I was under the assumption that everything was working well, except for that one error message?

[tonyvdb]

Just that one error, I used the updated FFS that's on the amigakit,s supplied OS3.1 install disks.
My system partition is only 300mb but work is just under 1gb and so are the others.

Edit: looks like I went over the 4gb limit so I removed compleatly the two partitions that went over that size. Didn't have anything on them anyhow.

So should I reformat the rest of the partitions just in case they got messed up?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Edit: looks like I went over the 4gb limit so I removed compleatly the two partitions that went over that size. Didn't have anything on them anyhow.

So should I reformat the rest of the partitions just in case they got messed up?

Hate to say it, but yes, personally, I would.  Better safe to do it now than when you encounter more weird errors in a week or a month.  Thomas could probably give you a better answer but I haven't seen him on here in a little while...

[tonyvdb]

well, I did a full reinstall of the hard drive including the OS and now the problem is in the work partition as well. I give up on this drive. Im going to dig up another drive and try it tomorrow. Something is strange here.