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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:36:23 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Lost Desktop on Ecom 1.1

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Louis,
You should do the following to your OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI and CONFIG.SYS files, the
ones that have the desktop and OS system setup info:

1. Clean the OS2*.INI files, using UniMaint, CheckINI and CleanINI

2. Back them up, using UniMaint. Keep several generation so that you
can go back to a functioning OS2*.INI set, should your desktop become corrupted (I
keep 30 generations of backup files).

3. Back up your CONFIG.SYS file and keep several generations of them,
exactly same as for the OS2*.INI files. Again, use UniMaint to back it up.

Let me give you my experience. I've just recently installed ECS 1.1 and now I'm in the
process of updating it and setting up my desktop to be similar to what I had previously
with Warp 4. For the past 3 or 4 days now I've been struggling with a corrupted desktop.
The desktop would not completely show up; long shadows appear on objects that
should not be there; portions on the desktop underneath an object would appear right
through the object; I could not open folders or do other things on the desktop; etc.

I think I've now isolated the source of the corruption. However, the point that I want to
make is that, fortunately for me, I was able to restore my desktop by going back to a set
of OS2*.INI files that were about 4 generations old. Generations 00 through 02 were
apparently bad, and when I tried to use them, the desktop was still corrupt. So, I went
back to generation 03. Now, I did lose some of my desktop customization that I had
done between generation 02 and generation 00. So I had to redo that. However, that
was minimal.

You need to make and keep several generations of backed up OS2*.INI files. If you
only keep 1 or 2 sets, how do you know that they are any good? Maybe you saved a
couple of sets that were corrupt and you did not know it.

I cannot tell you how many times having several generations of backed up OS2*.INI
and CONFIG.SYS files has saved my bacon (first on Warp 4 and now on ECS). Hope
that helps you.
HCM

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:28:01 PDT7, Larry Tawa wrote:

>Louis,
>
>In <69593.19.00.34.14.04.2004@constellation.carrier>, on 04/14/2004
> at 06:57 PM, "Louis W. Pinckert, S.M." said: snip
>> After several reboots between the C and D drives, the C
>>drive lost its desktop.
>
>>The big question is, how do we reestablish the desktop and the lost
>>folders without having to reinstall Ecom 1.1 and losing the connections
>>to existing programs.

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