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Date:	Sat, 3 May 2003 08:51:22 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: files not found

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In <200305022315.0540184.6@scoug.com>, on 05/02/03
at 11:15 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>I thought EA's were essential to the operation of OS/2. Is my concern

There are essential only for some types of operations. Consider that
folks have been using reading files off CDs with OS/2 for a long time.

>about losing them when copying from a CD-RW drive to my hard drive making
>a mountain out of a molehill?

I think you are attacking the problem from the wrong direction. You
simply need to understand that if you use ZTBold to copy the content of a
hard drive to a CD, reformat the drive or delete the files and then copy
the content back, the EAs will be lost. If this was your boot drive, it
probably will not boot. If this is a data drive, you might lose some file
associations and a double click or a data file might no longer open the
correct application. If the orginal file did not have EAs, you might see
no differences.

Not every file has EAs. To see this, do:

dir

from the command line. The number in the right column is the EA size.
Many files do not have EAs because they are not used in a way to requires
them.

The easy way to experiment with this is to back up your system and use
Unimaint, Henk Kelder's EA Browser or EAUTIL to delete the EAs from some
files and see what breaks. It's going to vary.

What's really important is to understand that not all backup methods will
preserve EAs and to choose one that does when doing a full backup.

Steven

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