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Tool: pathfix 1.3 · 256 KB · 16 Feb 2011 · md5 38857fca6b58 · signed RZ · back to its row on the shelf

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Placeholder page. These are the standard install steps, kept in the shape this shelf uses so nobody has to invent them twice. Anything in [brackets] is a value nobody has written down yet.

pathfix 1.3

256 KB · 16 Feb 2011 · md5 38857fca6b58 · signed RZ · shelf 4

windowslinuxmacossharewarewrites store

Placeholder install sheet: brackets mark values nobody has recorded.

Compacts the store and reclaims the space the dropped rows were holding.

pathfix compact --reclaim
reclaimed 2.4 GB in 3 min 12 s

Note from the shelf row: run it in the quiet hour

Before you install

  • Runs on: Windows, Linux, macOS. the application must be 4.0.7 to 4.1.6.
  • Space: about 256 KB for the download, plus [WORKING SPACE] while it runs.
  • Rights: an ordinary user account; no elevation needed
  • Know first: [PREREQUISITE] — what has to be true before this tool will run at all.

Download and verify

Take the build for your platform from the [SHARE] and check it against the digest on the shelf row before you unpack anything.

certutil -hashfile pathfix-1.3-win64.zip
md5sum pathfix-1.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
md5 pathfix-1.3-macos.tar.gz

Expected: 38857fca6b58. The shelf row carries the same digest.

Install

Copy it into place and put it on the path. Nothing here installs a service or a scheduled task.

Windows

Unpack the zip, then: 

xcopy pathfix-1.3-win64 C:\Tools\pathfix /E /I
setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Tools\pathfix"
pathfix --version

Linux

Unpack it and link it onto the path: 

sudo tar -xzf pathfix-1.3-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo ln -sf /opt/pathfix/pathfix /usr/local/bin/pathfix
pathfix --version

macOS

Unpack it and link it onto the path: 

sudo tar -xzf pathfix-1.3-macos.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo ln -sf /opt/pathfix/pathfix /usr/local/bin/pathfix
pathfix --version

Check it worked

Check the version first, then run the one command the tool exists for:

pathfix --version
pathfix compact --reclaim
reclaimed 2.4 GB in 3 min 12 s

Expected output is the line shown above; anything else means [TO DO: write the failure list].

Removing it

Delete the folder and drop the path entry. The tool keeps no state of its own.

rmdir /s /q C:\Tools\pathfix
sudo rm -rf /opt/pathfix /usr/local/bin/pathfix
sudo rm -rf /opt/pathfix /usr/local/bin/pathfix

If it goes wrong

  • [KNOWN FAILURE 1] — the usual fixes for this tool have not been written down yet. Add them the second time somebody hits one.
  • Wrong error number or a fault you cannot name: run the tool's own diagnostic first (shelf row).
  • Before any repair that writes to a store, take the export — backoff is the tool for it.