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Date:	Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:11:04 PST8
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Question Concerning Folders

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Peter Skye wrote:
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>>The solution was quite simple. I just opened Drives, then drive F:, then
>>made a shadow copy of the "COBOL Projects" folder on the desktop.
>
>
> Hiya Colin,
>
> A shadow isn't really a file. I'm worried that your actual project
> files will still be on drive C: where you don't want them.
>
> Why don't you drag the folder from C: to F:? VisualAge COBOL probably
> uses the INI file(s) to store the folder location, and if you drag the
> folder to a different drive then the INI will be updated.
>
> Give it a test. Create a Hello World program, then look in
> C:\Desktop\"COBOL Projects"\ and in F:"\COBOL Projects"\ to see where
> the files are located. If they're still on C:, drag 'em to F: and see
> if VisualAge COBOL can still find them.
>
> - Peter
Peter,
No, everything is fine. The shadow _folder_ shows that it has a "Real
Name" of F:\"COBOL Projects", and when I open it, it shows the TODOLIST
project that I created first, as well as another project I created in
mid-afternoon today.

I just created a new, Non-GUI project, Hello, and I got a message box
with the title "Workframe Project", that said "Error creating project
folder. It will be placed on the Desktop." But when I created the
project, and opened the shadow folder, the project files (HELLO.IWO and
HELLO.IWP) were both there. Also, if I look on drive F:, I can see the
directory "COBOL Projects", and see the project files I asked the tool
to create.

So, except for the annoyance of the message, I can store my project
files on my "data" drive.

I looked for *.INI files, and there was one in the F:\IBMCOBOL directory
that was created today, named IWZBCA2.INI, and one in F:\IBMCOBOL\HELP
named IWZWHLP1.INI, which had a 1998 date. It didn't look to me as if
either one had any information about directories. Is there somewhere
else I should be looking?

By the way, you sound as if you might have had some experience with VA
COBOL, or maybe another of the VA language tools. Is that true?
Thanks,
Colin

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