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Date:	Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:26:40 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Checkini hang

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
>>Here is the condition of the subject machine. I restored the entire
>>partition from a zip of previous edition. Didn't get much of a DT.
>>Booted from one of the archives that were in the zip. If I continue to
>>boot from that archive I get a functioning DT.
>
>
> That just means the Desktop got corrupted during the last shutdown or
> during the backup.
>
> Did you try moving the WarpCenter startup from/to config.sys and the
> startup folder?

One of the first things I do on a new installation is move it to the
startup folder. All backups would have it there.
>
>
>>I thought when you booted from an archive those files became the active
>>files from that point on. If so why would it revert on the next boot?
>
> They do, but what makes you sure you are backing up everything required?
> For example, files like MMOS2.INI and TCPOS2.INI have settings that can
> change.

When I boot from one particular archive I get a good DT. Does that not
imply that that archive had enough of what was needed? However, that
archive seems to only get booted not copied over the HDD. I thought the
point was to return the HDD to the state of the archive.

Ray

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