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  Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 3
Subject:   did I just unleashed a wild beast on my hard drive?
Date:   2003-08-14 07:29:08
From:   anonymous2
The article helped me a whole lot installing oracle on my disk. I then imported a dump file we are currently working on, tricked stuff a little bit to import it without loss (character set didn't match, so I tweaked the terminal into thinking it was MS-Win-1252 compatible, using NLS_LANG param).


Maybe this was a very silly thing to do, maybe this is totally unrelated, but some of the files on my hard drive were eaten up by the contents of the DB i just imported. So when I open some files (in fact, all the files that were lately created on the disk), their content is replaced by content from the imported DB (mostly binary content + some readable text parts).


I think this is a very bad thing, whatever the reason is... Either the Mac's file system is buggy, either Oracle is, but this is not cool at all!


Any thought?


Thanks, have luck ;-)
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  • did I just unleashed a wild beast on my hard drive?
    2003-08-14 08:50:34  dsimpson1 [View]

    It seems like you must have some other problem with the OS or file system in order to be getting this type of problem. You might want to backup everything up, then run the Disk Utility to repair any file system corruption problems. I have not seen problems like you are describing with Oracle running on any platform - including this developer release on MacOS X.

    David Simpson