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Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:19:46 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint help needed

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In , on 07/28/04
at 10:46 PM, "Gary Granat" said:

>IIRC, the recommended procedure is to make necessary repairs followed
>ASAP by a restart.

This is true. The cleaners all use nonstandard methods to do the deed.
Basically, they bypass the WPS. Without a quick WPS reset, if the WPS has
buffered data, it will eventually overwrite any changes made by the
cleaner.

>The reason for this is to ensure that your updates
>are written to the permanent INI files.

Not quite. It is to prevent the WPS from writing its updates to the INI
files.

>I suspect that the reason that
>updates are written to the !!! files.

These exist for performance reasons. The change gets written first to the
!!! file and eventually gets written to the base INI file. This is true
for all WPS changes other than some updates the the Desktop itself. These
special cases only get written to the base INI on shutdown. For some
reason, the WPS holds these values in memory until a WPS shutdown is
requested.

FWIW, all INI files operate the same way, not just the WPS INIs.

You can see that this is the case because most changes to Desktop
subfolders typically survive CAD reboots and crashes while settings like
the position of Desktop objects do not stick until an clean WPS shutdown.

The content of the !!! files are totally ignored when you restart.

Steven

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