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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:14:52 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint, etc.

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In <3B64741E.18CF@peterskye.com>, on 07/29/01
at 01:38 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Well, I _tried_ backing up the files you specified. Wrote a little
>routine to XCOPY them. But every time I run it, it creates a _new_
>Desktop shadow in the parent directory from where I run the test. Very

Makes sense. XCOPY preserves EA's. When WPS notices the new objects in
the desktop directory, it's going to show them.

>weird indeed. (I now have lots of Desktops!) I tried deleting them
>(they're just shadows, there aren't any files in the actual directory)

Absence of content visible to cmd.exe does not neccessarily make them
shadows, as you have found. xcopy does not create shadows.

>but that just deleted my *real* Desktop. I had to restore that from a
>backup.

Yep.

>Maybe this "UniMaint" stuff is a good idea after all . . .

I like to read other peoples code regardless of whether it contains good
ideas or bad ideas. The good ideas, I can integrate and use. The bad
ideas, I know not to bother to try myself.

Steven

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