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In <3D93F0FB.E0388BA8@attglobal.net>, on 09/26/02
at 09:51 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:
>OK!, but you are not responding to my suggestion, here! Since both our
No, it's not that. I know Butch tends to miss things and state other
things inaccurately. As I mentioned, there was the very good possibility
that Current was not empty and that he was simply not looking correctly.
I knew that once I tested, I would know the true situation.
Here's how it really works. The files are in Current and Current is not
empty. For some reason known only to IBM, the files are stored a bit
differently than in the 01, 02 and 0X archive directories. For example,
heres the 01 archive on my testbox:
Volume in drive O is MCP_451 Serial number is E86B:F814
Directory of O:\os2\archives\01\*
9-27-02 15:22 0 .
9-27-02 15:22 0 ..
12-19-01 22:51 901 DESKTOP
9-27-02 15:22 188,813 0 0
9-27-02 15:22 72,107 0 1
9-11-02 22:09 4,760 0 2
12-21-01 19:57 75 0 3
12-19-01 22:39 360 0 4
9-27-02 15:22 3,152 0 KEYS.$$$
and here's Current, after a restore:
Volume in drive O is MCP_451 Serial number is E86B:F814
Directory of O:\os2\archives\CURRENT\*
12-19-01 22:51 0 .
12-19-01 22:51 0 ..
12-19-01 22:51 901 DESKTOP
9-27-02 15:28 0 E$
and here is E$:
Volume in drive O is MCP_451 Serial number is E86B:F814
Directory of O:\os2\archives\CURRENT\e$\*
9-27-02 15:28 0 .
9-27-02 15:28 0 ..
9-27-02 15:28 0 OS2
12-19-01 22:39 360 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
9-11-02 22:09 4,760 0 CONFIG.SYS
12-21-01 19:57 75 0 STARTUP.CMD
Directory of O:\os2\archives\CURRENT\e$\OS2\*
9-27-02 15:28 0 .
9-27-02 15:28 0 ..
9-27-02 15:27 188,856 0 OS2.INI
9-27-02 15:27 72,107 0 OS2SYS.INI
This is hardly empty by any definition I know. As you can see the files
are all there. The boot drive is really volume E:, mapped as drive O:.
The bad news it appears Warp provides no support for automatically
restoring the files in Current. It's got to be done by hand, from a
command line boot. This is not hard, just tedious without the proper
tools and it does require a basic understanding of what goes where and how
to place it. The Desktop tree is the most difficult item to restore.
ZtBold can do it in a couple of keystrokes. deltree and xcopy would take
a bit more effort.
>books say that the system saves the present configuration (saves the
>various system files elsewhere under new names), wouldn't it be prudent
>to see if that happened (by doing wildcard searches on his C:\ partition,
>using PMSEEK.EXE)????
As you might agree, DIR gives perfectly acceptable answers with excellent
context.
>It might be just possible that all/most of what he needs is stored
>somewhere on his system under other names??? Try it and see! Nothing
>ventured, nothing possibly gained! Right??
We already knew where the files were supposed to be. It made more sense
to me to first verify that the files were truely not there, as Butch
claimed, before engaging in a random hunt.
Steven
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