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- From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
- Subject: Re: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.074145.7000@kub.nl>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:41:45 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- References: <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
- |> Here's the scenario:
- |> 1) I open up the drives Icon, and then open up a Icon view of a
- |> directory on the hard disk.
- |> 2) This gives me a display of all the files in that directory.
- |> (This display maps directly onto what I get if I go to a DOS
- |> window and do a dir of the directory)
- |> 3) Now, I create a folder in the directory that is being
- |> displayed, and move a file from the directory Icon view into the
- |> folder.
- |> 4) Now, I go to DOS, and do a dir of the directory, and lo, the
- |> file is no longer there. Worse, the file is nowhere on the
- |> disk (I used a DOS file find utility, and it was nowhere to
- |> be found) So, where is it?
- |> 5) Finally, if I go back to the desktop, and move the file back
- |> out of the folder into the directory Icon view, then when I go
- |> to DOS, the file is there.
-
- Since you speak about DOS window instead of OS/2 window, it might be that the
- name of your subfolder is HPFS-like and thus cannot be displayed by DOS,
- hence you do not see the directory.
-
- For the rest: file objects (not shadows etc.) are EITHER in the dir tree as shown
- by a drive icon OR in the \OS!2_2.0_DESKTOP (spelling?) directory (e.g. if they
- are on the desktop or in a folder that is not mapped into the normal file system).
- Again, a DOS session cannot see this HPFS-like dir tree unless you modify the
- desktop folder name.
-
- If you did not use HPFS, did not use a DOS session to look for the file, and
- your scan program does not choke on hidden files, we have some riddle here.
-
-
- Jeroen
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