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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:21:18 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Delete Templates\ ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >the \Desktop\"OS!2 System"\Templates\
> >directory won't delete.
>
> When are you trying to delete it and
> how are you trying to delete it?

By right-clicking on it and choosing Delete. Or by typing RD TEMPLATES
from a command line. Or by rebooting to my Maintenance Partition to
foil any pointer in the OS2*.INI files and trying both of the prior
methods.

> >But I don't know *why* it won't delete.
>
> The why depends on the how.

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

About 20 experiments down the list I used EAUTIL to remove the
Templates\ EA's and then dragged Templates\ to my C: FAT16 root
directory. When I then opened it there was another directory inside
named Folder!1. I don't know why. The original Templates\ properties
under the File tab showed that it didn't contain any objects, so I don't
know where 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\.

I then ran UniMaint Repair and deleted everything it listed. Then I ran
CheckINI. Wow, lots of errors I've never seen before, but what the heck
CHECKINI /C /Y:2 took care of _that_.

If my machine survives the next reboot, I'll next get rid of all the
other Templates\ that I have stashed in various places around the
partitions.

- Peter

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