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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.
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)
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.
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
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
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.
SAVE ICONS
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For problems associating an icon with an object:
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
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.