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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:33:16 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing

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Jordan,

I confess that I've never used the UniMaint desktop backups to restore
my system. I think, however, that you can do a complete restore that
way. According to the UniMaint reader's manual, the desktop backup makes
a backup of the desktop and both INI files. Do you have a copy of the
manual? If so, on pages 168 to 169 it tells how to restore the desktop
and/or INI files. If not, you I think you will have to muddle through
it, using UniMaint online help.

HCM

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
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> Fie upon you meddlesome tinkerers, you devotees of CHECKINI &
> CLEANINI, forever chasing down trivial inefficiencies and
> illusory "problems"!! (You know who you are.) I never even got
> that far, and still you have led me down the primrose path to
> desktop destruction. Let me explain.
>
> I've had UNIMAINT for as long as I've been running OS/2. It is
> the only one of these system repair thingies that I've used, and
> even that sparingly. And I've (almost) never had a significant
> problem. From conversations with other SCOUG members at
> meetings, I know there are others whose experience has been quite
> similar. Whatever the other repair util.s might be able to find
> "wrong" under the hood, most of the time, it can't have been
> terribly important.
>
> I never noticed the "Do Agressive File Handles Repair" option
> until now, after it was mentioned on the List. Perhaps this
> option was introduced with the last UniMaint csd, which I only
> recently applied. Well, I tried this, and it has seriously
> compromised my desktop. (Guess they weren't kidding about it
> being aggressive . . . . ) Most of the objects and folder
> contents have seemingly lost their icons and won't open, beyond
> an initial Properties screen. I've manually test-fixed a few of
> these, by re-entering the Program Tab info. In some cases, the
> icon is not actually "lost." In most of the ones inspected thus
> far, the File Associations are not gone either. But some other
> custom info may have been lost. Restoring each and every
> affected object by hand looks like a most dreary prospect.
>
> I'm theorizing that I inadvertently wiped out a ton of program
> .INIs, and probably knocked a lot of important stuff out of the
> Warp system .INIs. I think that UniMaint may have some shortcut
> way of fixing this, in effect turning back the clock -- possibly
> via Restore Desktop INIs in the Desktop menu -- but I don't want
> to try it or even reboot before getting some guidance, for fear
> of winding up someplace worse. I've never had to do this
> before. Luckily, I made a Desktop backup (plus a Portable
> Backup), just before embarking on this ill-advised venture.
>
> If I can successfully get back to where I was, it will be *very
> easy* to resist any further temptations to "fix" things.
>
> Jordan
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