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Drives Icon Problem 7/15/94
OSWPWPS1.FAX
WORKPLACE SHELL PROBLEMS/WORKAROUNDS
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The following problems are addressed in this fax document:
BlankDesktop - Some customers have experienced a blank
desktop containing only a mobile mouse
pointer. If this cannot be resolved
permanently with Alt-F1 the workaround
in this Info APAR may apply
DrivesIcon - Some customers are experiencing problems
with DRIVES icons opening and then closing
immediately.
LostIcon - Customer has lost an icon for a workplace
shell folder, such as the OS2 System Folder
icon has defaulted to yellow folder.
SaveIcons - Customers are having problems associating an
icon with an object .
Copying Large- Copying large folders from any type drive to any other
Folders drive sometimes causes many subfolders to be created
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BLANKDESKTOP
============
If a customer experiences a blank desktop containing only a
mobile mouse pointer he/she may have INI file or CONFIG.SYS
corruption. One possible cause for this blank desktop
problem that we've found are extra SET USER_INI and SET
SYSTEM_INI statements in the CONFIG.SYS. The following
statements are as they should appear:
SET USER_INI=C: OS2 OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C: OS2 OS2SYS.INI
If the customer has any additional SET USER_INI or SET
SYSTEM_INI statements in their CONFIG.SYS, they should be
removed. Also, a MAKEINI or Alt-F1 may be required to
return the desktop to normal.
DRIVESICON
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Some customers are experiencing problems with DRIVES icons
opening and then closing immediately. This seems to be a
disk problem which can be cleared up with a CHKDSK on the
offending disk. To do so:
1) Boot with the OS/2 install diskette.
2) Follow prompts and enter install disk 1 when prompted.
3) Follow the prompts, ESC to exit when prompted.
4) With install disk 2 in the A Drive run:
CHKDSK /F (FAT)
or
CHKDSK /F:3 (HPFS)
If this does not work, have the customer erase the hidden
file WP_ROOT._SF (Fat) or WP ROOT. SF (HPFS).
Of course, the file will have to be unhidden first.
LOSTICON
========
Customer has lost an icon for a workplace shell folder, such
as the OS2 System Folder icon has defaulted to yellow
folder-to recover:
1) Must have access to another OS/2 2.0 machine.
2) Copy the Extended Attributes from this other machine's
OS/2 System folder to diskette with EAUTIL as follows:
FAT -EAUTIL C: OS!2_2.0_d OS!2_SYS easave /P /S
or
HPFS-EAUTIL "C: OS!2 2.0 Desktop OS!2 SYSTEM" easave /P /S
where C: is the actual drive on which the operating
system resides
3) Take the diskette to the machine with the missing
icon and copy the extended attributes in easave to the
os2 system folder with eautil:
FAT -EAUTIL C: OS!2_2.0_d OS!2_SYS easave /O /J
or
HPFS-EAUTIL "C: OS!2 2.0 Desktop OS!2 SYSTEM" easave /O /J
where it doesn't matter if the machines are mix and match
Fat and HPFS, just use the right directory names for the
file system you are copying to or from at the time. After
a shutdown and reboot the correct icon should appear, and
the customer will not have lost any customization.
SAVEICONS
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For Customers having problems associating an icon with an
object this method seems to work:
1) Open a settings notebook for the object.
2) Select the General Page and push the FIND pushbutton.
3) Select the LOCATE pushbutton
4) Select the PATH tab
5) In the Location field, enter the path in which the icon
physically resides: C: MYICONS (or whatever)
6) Press the OK pushbutton
7) Change the Name field to the filename of your icon:
MYICON.ICO (or whatever)
8) Make sure that ICON is hilighted in your Types box
9) Check "search just this folder"
10)Press the Find pushbutton
11)Your icon should now appear selected on the screen-
Press OK
That should do it! Your icon should now "stick".
PROBLEM WITH COPYING LARGE FOLDERS
==================================
Copying large folders from any type drive to any other type
drive sometimes causes many subfolders to be created, each with
the entire directory structure of what is being copied. In
essence, this operation will fill a partition with garbage.
Problem seems to be more easily recreatable when source and
destination partitions have different file systems (i.e.,
copying from hpfs to fat). This problem occurs whether using
context menu to copy or dragging and dropping.
12/31/99