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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:40:42 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Delete Templates\ ?

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In <3E94C6F4.5A75@peterskye.com>, on 04/09/03
at 06:21 PM, Peter Skye said:

>By right-clicking on it and choosing Delete. Or by typing RD TEMPLATES
>from a command line.

I would expect these to fail. The directory is probably locked by the
WPS. Did you try to delete the directory with an Alt-F1 boot to the
command line and use RD from there?

>Or by rebooting to my Maintenance Partition to foil
>any pointer in the OS2*.INI files and trying both of the prior methods.

This should work, unless you have cross-drive references to the Templates
directory in the maintenance partitions WPS files.

>I think I've figured it out. I think there's a hidden subdirectory in
>Templates\ called Folder!1\.

That would explain it. These extra Folder directories get created as a
result of WPS corruption, athough, I've never had on hide on me. However,
the WPS will usually report them all with name Folder. The phyiscal name
is unique, but the .LONGNAME that the WPS displays is not.

>Folder!1\ came from. Maybe it was a directory with System or Hidden
>attributes which kept Properties File from mentioning it. Anyway, from
>the command line I deleted Folder!1\ and was then able to delete
>Templates\.

It's possible, but that should have been pretty obvious that the directory
existed when you checked for files with:

DIR /A

Steven

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