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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:23:29 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Lost Desktop on Ecom 1.1

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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:48:31 PDT7, J. R. Fox wrote:

>What was it ?

I believe that I was my attempt to install Norman antivirus on my ECS 1.14 machine. I
purchased a 3 year update license from Norman a year ago. I installed it on my Warp 4
system and kept installation *.exe file and all the license documentation from Norman. I
then tried to install the same thing on my ECS system, using the installation program
from a year ago and the 3 year license key. After the initial install I updated it, using the
Internet. All of that went very well, I thought. However, after doing that and then closing
down and doing a cold boot up, I came up with a corrupted desktop. It took me about 3
days to isolate it to the Norman install. After contacting Norman they advised me to use
their latest installer *.exe on their website and then apply my license to it.

>I've been seriously considering trying to use the UniMaint Portable Backup
>feature to apply all the installed stuff, the customizations, and desktop layout from my
>longstanding Warp 4 partition onto a new eCS partition, but I'm thinking the disaster
>potential is definitely there. (Have any of you reading this ever tried that ?) It may be a
>great way to encounter the sort of corruption you describe, or worse.

J. R., I wouldn't do that. I tried to do that several years ago with Warp and it did not work.
I believe that the incident was that I got a new computer and, because the hardware
was different, I had to reinstall Warp. As I recall, I had to first install Warp 3.0 from
diskettes and then install Warp 4.0 over that, using the IBM installation CD's that I had.
You see, I purchased Warp 4.0 as an upgrade, therefore I had to have Warp 3.0
already on my system in order to install 4.0. So, ....., I knew that I had 2 installs to do. And
I did not want to redo my desktop, too. However, UniMaint's portable desktop did not
work. I believe that it's a nice idea, but it's known to not work. I think maybe Steven can
comment on that some more.

>Then at least you have determined that _other_ standard UniMaint functions still work
>properly on eCS 1.1 ?

Yes, UniMaint, CheckINI and CleanINI all work.
HCM

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