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- OSWPWPS1 - WORKPLACE SHELL PROBLEMS
- 10/19/94
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- WORKPLACE SHELL PROBLEMS
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- Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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- SYMPTOMS: - Blank Desktop
- - Drives Icon
- - Lost Icon
- - Save Icons
- - Copying Large Folders
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- BLANK DESKTOP
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- If you have a blank desktop with only a mouse pointer you
- may have a corrupt INI file or CONFIG.SYS. One possible cause
- could be an extra SET USER_INI and SET SYSTEM_INI statements in
- the CONFIG.SYS.
-
- SET USER_INI=C: OS2 OS2.INI
- SET SYSTEM_INI=C: OS2 OS2SYS.INI
-
- If you have an additional SET USER_INI or SET SYSTEM_INI
- statements in the CONFIG.SYS, remove them. Also, a MAKEINI or
- Alt+F1 may be required to return the desktop to normal.
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- DRIVES ICON
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- When the DRIVES icon opens and closes immediately, it seems to be
- disk problems. This can be resolved by running CHKDSK.
- 1. Start the system with the OS/2 installation diskette
- 2. Follow prompts and insert diskette 1 when prompted.
- 3. At the Welcome Screen, press Esc to go to the A: prompt.
- 4. Insert diskette 2 in the drive A and type:
- CHKDSK /F (FAT)
- or
- CHKDSK /F:3 (HPFS)
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- If this does not work, erase the hidden file
- file WP_ROOT._SF (Fat) or WP ROOT. SF (HPFS).
- The file must be unhidden first.
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- LOST ICON
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- To recover an icon for a workplace shell folder, such
- as the OS2 System Folder icon, that defaulted to yellow
- folder:
- NOTE: You must have access to another OS/2 2.0 machine for this
- process
-
- 1. Copy the Extended Attributes from the other machine's
- OS/2 System folder to diskette with EAUTIL as follows:
-
- FAT -EAUTIL X: OS!2_2.0_d OS!2_SYS easave /P /S
- or
- HPFS-EAUTIL "X: OS!2 2.0 Desktop OS!2 SYSTEM" easave /P /S
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- where X: is the drive where OS/2 resides
-
- 2. Take the diskette to the machine with the missing
- icon and copy the extended attributes in easave to the
- OS/2 system folder with EAUTIL:
-
- FAT -EAUTIL X: OS!2_2.0_d OS!2_SYS easave /O /J
- or
- HPFS-EAUTIL "X: OS!2 2.0 Desktop OS!2 SYSTEM" easave /O /J
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- Make sure you use the correct directory names for the file
- system you are copying to or from
-
- 3. Perform a shutdown and restart the system. The correct icon
- should appear and your customiztion remains the same.
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- SAVE ICONS
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- For problems associating an icon with an object:
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- 1. Open a settings notebook for the object.
- 2. Select the General Page and select the FIND push button.
- 3. Select the LOCATE push button
- 4. Select the PATH tab
- 5. In the Location field, type the path where the icon
- physically resides, for example: C: MYICONS
- 6. Press the OK push button
- 7. Change the Name field to the filename of your icon, for
- example: MYICON.ICO.
- 8. Make sure the ICON is highlighted in the Types box
- 9. Check "search just this folder"
- 10. Press the Find push button
- 11. The icon appears selected on the screen.
- 12. Press OK
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- PROBLEM WITH COPYING LARGE FOLDERS
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- Sometimes copying large folders from drive to drive
- creates many subfolders with the entire directory structure of
- what is being copied. This fills a partition unnecessary data.
- The problem is more easily recreatable when source and
- destination partitions have different file systems, for example
- copying from HPFS to FAT. This problem can occur whether using
- context menu to copy or dragging and dropping.
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