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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:43:35 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: Desktop

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:25:52 PDT7, Sandy Shapiro wrote:

>>>I can boot to a command line. Can someone remind me if there is a way to
>>>find the desktop or recreate it.

Sandy,
I don't use UniMaint for destop backups, but I have the user manual and I read the
applicable section. Since you can boot to a commandline, perhaps you can search for
the location of the single *.zip file that UniMaint uses to store your desktop information. If
you can find that *.zip file, you will want to unzip it from a maintenance boot and restore
its contents. Inside that single *.zip file, you will find two more *.zip files. One contains the
OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files. The other contains your desktop directory structure. You
will want to restore both. Restore (unzip and copy) the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files
files to ?:\OS2 and restore (unzip and copy) the desktop directory to ?:\, where ?: is your
boot partition. Then reboot.

The only problems I see are 1.) locating the UniMaint *.zip file, and 2.) unzipping from
the commandline. UniMaint uses the first zip executable file found in the path statement
of your CONFIG.SYS file to compress your backup. Perhaps that location also contains
an unzip executable that you can use to unzip.
HCM

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