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- From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
- Subject: Re: How to delete undeletable objects
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120954.4010@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:09:54 GMT
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- First, thanks to everyone who helped.
- In summary, the simplest way to delete undeleteble objects seems to be:
- - Create a new directory (eg. \wegmit)
- - Move all the nasty object into it (with Drive C object)
- - delete everything manually in this folder (Drive C will not allow one
- to do it, so I used File Manager from OS/2 1.3)
- - remove the folder
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- There are some interesting things though:
- - If one immediatly recreates the directory (md c:\wegmit), and looks into
- it with Drive C object, the stuff is back in! To circumvent it, I had to
- create a new folder (in Drive C object), open it, rename it to "wegmit",
- and delete it again. After that, the traces to this folder seem to be
- gone.
- - In OS2.INI are still references to the now deleted objects (and will
- probably be there forever...). So, what one would need is something like
- CHKDSK for the workplace shell, to cleanup all lost pointers etc.
- OF COURSE I would prefer it, if I could decide myself if I want to delete
- something, without being forced to use "tricks".
- Regards, Martin
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