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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:41:31 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Funny Unimaint Experience

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In <200310102148.1733518.6@scoug.com>, on 10/10/03
at 09:48 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>Yesterday I did the directory and file handle repairs and reduced os2.ini
>from about 257k to 200k but clobbered my desktop so far as BA2000 and RSJ
>CD-Writer were concerned.

Since you didn't bother to provide details, I'll assume that you lost some
or all of the Desktop objects in these folders

This can happen when you have cross-linked items. The only real fix to
this is to delete the bad items in small groups until you find out which
one is causing the problem.

>>showed exatly the same items. I know this because I printed the contents
>of each window. Many of the entries were "xxxxxx@10 is ? - Invalid - Is
>an Unknown Object" after the second running of directory and file handle
>repairs.

I have to assume you didn't reset the Desktop between runs. If so, the
results are normal. There's a Mr. KIA article that discuss the various
INI cleaners and explains the effect you are seeing.

> Since ZTBold said there were no files in the diretories referenced, I
>assumed it was okay to delete them and any files Unimaint said it found.
> Bad choice.

Many of the objects on your Desktop have not physical files associated
with them. This is why they are called abstract objects.

>Did I confuse Uimaint and ZTBold because I have two folders labelled
>"Additional OS/2 Programs"? (One has only the icons for .exe files; the

That's not what's happening. ZtBold is a file manager. It can't see
things like Program objects because they are not files.

HTH,

Steven

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