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Date:	Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:26:48 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Troubleshoot a boot hang?

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In <200207141448_MC3-1-648-22AF@compuserve.com>, on 07/14/02
at 10:48 AM, Wayne Cypress said:

>Steven, I'll give that a try (actually, I already had WPtools downloaded,
>but I don't think I've used it).

This is typical. The WPS slowly degrades so it's not really noticable.
Eventually, it will stop working and the user will be amazed at how much
garbage checkini or unimaint find to clean up. :-)

>But, I'm afraid I'm ignorant in this area: how does one backup & restore
>the desktop? I use the background "properties" to archive the desktop
>between boots now & then when I've made alterations I wish to keep, but I
>have no idea how one backs up the desktop... the OS/2 Help index gives no

When you do that, you are backing up the Desktop. The modification
suggested by others for additional items to backup are useful too. If you
know how to do this kind of backup, you probably also know how to restore
the Desktop too.

>clues. I don't have a backup software product. Up til now I've just
>copied folders to other physical hard drives (a right-click on the
>desktop folder doesn't give the copy option, however), and re-installed
>OS/2 if that became necessary.

If you had known, you could have just used the built-in Desktop restore
and avoided the reinstall, assuming the backup was good.

Steven

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