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Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:24:49 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint help needed

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In <4108D595.74FE@peterskye.com>, on 07/29/04
at 03:46 AM, Peter Skye said:

>The weirdest part is that if I run UniMaint Repair and then exit the
>program and immediately run it again, everything looks fine. But if I
>wait a while and run it, or if I reboot, the "fixed" stuff has returned.

This is entirely expected. If you wait long enough without a desktop
reset and if the WPS has previously cached the bad versions of the items
you just fixed, the WPS will probably overwrite your fixes. It has no
clue that Unimaint has changed data that the WPS considers private.

Of course if the WPS has not cached anything related to your fixes, the
WPS will not have any old data to use to overwrite your fixes. What the
case will be for a specific set of fixes is pretty much unknowable without
a lot of effort. It depends on exactly what you have asked the WPS to do
since the time you booted the system.

FWIW, the code that manages the flow of data between the .INI and the .!!!
is not part of the WPS. This code is within the PM subsystem and all .INI
files share the same operational characteristics.

As long as some process has the .INI open, there will be corresponding
.!!! file. Apps like Relish only open the Bun .INIs when it needs to
update some setting. Other apps like fm/2 leave the INIs open.

Steven

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