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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2003 12:53:41 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Scrambled Desktop, Unimaint NOT to the Rescue

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I had an NS 4.61 lockup this morning in the W4 partition (probably of
the "invoked
too many times before reboot" variety), had to get out of it with the
process killer, and
the aftermath was a scrambled desktop. It's too soon to know whether
anything important
was actually lost. A few recently consolidated folders (non-critical)
now show up as
empty. The main obvious effect was that all the desktop objects
turned up in tight rows,
having lost their intended locations on the desktop.

My last desktop backup was 5/3, and I thought that should be
acceptable. However, the
Desktop Restore of UNIMAINT hung, with the cpu meter pegged at 98 %.
I could try it
again, but its apparent unreliability is disturbing. Could I get an
equivalent result *manually*,
by booting to a maintenance partition, unzipping these UNIMAINT
created backup archives

5-03-03 9:14p 46468 0 SUPBACKE.zip
5-03-03 9:14p 329614 0 SYSBDR01.zip
5-03-03 9:14p 282983 0 SYSBIN01.zip
5-03-03 9:14p 2320 0 SYSWC01.zip

one of which I believe contains the OS/2 system .INIs, another
containing the desktop structure
and EAs, and just overwriting these items in the W4 partition ?

It's always nice to have a viable alternative.

Jordan

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