SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

>> Next Message >>

Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:33:47 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint help needed

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

> Peter Skye wrote:
> >I used to get that a lot.

Harry Motin wrote:
>
> Peter,
> Hope you NOW use UniMaint, Checkini and Cleanini
> and have far fewer startup problems!

Well hi there Harry,

I now use UniMaint's "Repair" first, which seems to help. I have
trouble with all three of the above, but in fairness they have a lot of
trouble with my OS2*.INI files due to all the "fiddling" I do.

-- UniMaint has a habit of making repairs and saying it has deleted
stuff but the stuff shows back up a few minutes later. Really weird.
(Jim Reeves says I might be hitting some kind of maximum buffer size on
the OS2*.INI files).

-- CheckINI simply hangs every so often when I run it; I've never
figured out why but I can usually get it to complete by doing a Ctrl-C
part way through while it's running (so the files are "partially" fixed)
and then running it again (if that doesn't work I simply skip it and go
to CleanINI).

-- CleanINI used to totally zap my OS2*.INI files but I might have been
using one of the /Del* parameters when I first started using it (I don't
use any of the /Del* parameters now and it seems to work okay). Do you
use any of the /Del* parameters?

/DelFldPos enable delete of PM_Workplace:FolderPos
/DelFldCont enable delete of PM_Abstract:FldrContent
/DelMisc enable delete of PMWP_ASSOC_TYPE, PMWP_ASSOC_FILTER,
PMWP_ASSOC_CHECKSUM and PM_Workplace:Startup
/DelAll parameters /DelFldPos, /DelFldCont and /DelMisc

UniMaint has a number of different "Type of Repair" selections but I
just use the default "Do All WPS, PM and File Handle Repairs".

I run CheckINI with the /C /Y:2 parameters. Steven says I'm nuts to run
it that way but what the heck I have backups. (Why have I learned to
make backups? Because of what occasionally happens when I run CHECKINI
/C /Y:2).

- Peter
(la la la la la scrambled ini files la la la la la)

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 28 | July | 2004 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.