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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:16:46 -0700
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Delete hidden folder ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Questions regarding his permanent disappearance apparently were premature.

I simply decided to drive some _other_ people crazy for a while.

> > -- I can "see" the folder by changing its parent folder's Properties to
> >Include files with the H flag set, but PM won't let me open the hidden
> >folder's Properties so I can't turn the H flag off that way.
>
> PM? I think you mean the WPS.

Yaa -- WPS. It will take me a while to reconnect with technology.

> > -- ATTRIB doesn't work on directories.
>
> This may be true for the brain-dead cmd.exe. 4os2 has no problem with
> changing directory attributes. Most unix ports of chmod will work too.

"Some day" I'll upgrade my stuff. For the past year it's been running
as a server, with weekly visits from The Duck.

(For the record, ATTRIB.EXE is in the \OS2\ directory, at least on my
W4FP10 box.)

> > -- It won't drag so I can't drag it to a floppy or other folder.
>
> >How may I delete this folder? Perhaps there is a utility which can turn
> >off a directory's Hidden flag?
>
> First thing to recall is that there are two sets of flags to consider.
> --The WPS maintains one set of flags.
> -- The file system maintains another.

Thanks much. I didn't know the WPS kept a separate set of flags -- I
thought it just asked the file system what they were. (Off on a tangent
-- what does the WPS do when these two sets of flags get out of sync,
for example if I boot to my maintenance partition and change the flags
which would change them in the file system but not in the production
partition's WPS?)

> Use Unimaint's WPS->Selected Object Settings dialogs to modify the
> properties owned by the WPS. Once you adjust these, you will be able to
> use the folder's Properties notebook to change the file system attributes.

Hmm, I just tried to do this. My UniMaint (5.10.25) has a Select Obj
button but the ensuing window requires an object to be selected, and I
can't figure out any way to do this. There is a Select By Name option
but that yields a search criteria window (I tried "*" but that yielded
nothing). The File menu doesn't have any select options and I can't
find anything on the other drop-down menus. Likewise, I can't find
anything on the Toolbar.

Hoo haa. What cryptic insider-only techno-jargo gives me the Select An
Object window?

> BTW, what is the name of the folder? Perhaps you are trying to manipulate
> one that the WPS considers special, such as the Nowhere folders.

Not special, just one of my download folders. In this case, the tree is

PPW.src
+-PPW.1
+-PPW.2
+-PPW.d
+-PPW.e

The PPW.2 folder, for some unknown reason, is Hidden. Rexx FileTree()
can see it and the WPS can see it if I change the PPW.src properties to
Include the H flag.

- Peter

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