Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: I need to copy my desktop from one drive to another!!!!
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 10:51:18 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Here's the situation:
o I used to run OS/2 on my C drive and I had it running just how I wanted.
o I just got a new 80MB and installed OS/2 on a 30MB partition "D:"
o In the proces of copying addition files from C to D, I run out of space.
o I created another 30MB HPFS at the END of the 80MB drive (C is FAT, D:
  is HPFS) and copied the entire D (or so I thought) to E
o I deleted the D partition and replaced it with a 50MB HPFS partition and
  copied E to D entirely (or so I thought)
o When I ran the D partition, everything ran fine except there were no 
  folders anywhere. All of the Programs on the desktop were copied over,
  but the folders were not.
o I figured, "hey, no biggie, I wanted to copy my desktop config from my
  C partition anyway... the one that I had just how I like it".
o As far as I can tell, all folder information is contained in the extended
  attributes of the directory with that folder name... with "OS!2_2.2_D"
  being the top of the hierarchy for FAT drives and "OS!2 2.0 Desktop"
  being the top for HPFS drives.
o On this hunch, I use EAUTIL to grab, yet preserve, all of the EA's
  for every subdirectory under OS!2_2.0_D on my C drive with the intent
  of copying them to my D drive and then attatching them to the 
  appropriate directory on the D drive.

The problem:
o OS/2 refuses to let me CD into "OS!2 2.0 Desktop". Thinking that maybe
  there were maybe invisible characters or maybe trailing spaces or tabs,
  I loaded 4OS2 and used F9 to scroll through the names of the files in
  the root directory and "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" never appeared. I even tried
  File Commander and several file-finders and they all missed it entirely.
 
So, what I need to know is how do I access the EA's for the Desktop on the
D drive? How do I get into "OS!2 2.0 Desktop"? I recently read a post about
something called WPSBack or something like that, so I'll try that next. But
any help would be appreciated.

As a side note, I figured out a cool way of doing maintenance to the OS/2
system files. The standard line is to boot the first two install disks and
hit Esc to get to the prompt. Well, if you are using boot manager and have
a few megs of unsused space on a hard disk, create a small (2MB minimum)
partition on the drive and turn it into a bootable OS/2 drive. I just
copied the OS2KRNL, OS2BOOT, OS2LDR*.*, and the Config.sys from the boot
diskette and then copied over all the files that are mentioned in the
Config.sys. The only real thing I think you have to change is the part
where it lists OS2INST1.EXE and OS2INST2.EXE or whatever they are. Replace
them with CMD.EXE and make sure you have CMD.EXE in the rott directory.
When you boot that partition, it will boot MUCH faster than a full-dress
OS/2 session with PM, WPS, et al. On my machine, I boots almost as fast as
DOS... which is really nice when I need to make a quick change to
DISPLAY.DLL or some other system file that's locked in the normal session.

thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
Joe Emenaker - Sexual Engineer | "I don't like words. I know how they can be 
   jemenake@nike.calpoly.edu   |  used to deceive. In fact, speech may have    
   Pro-woman, anti-feminist    |  been my greatest creation." - Satan 
 (This is the .sig of the day) |                  (from the movie Mr. Frost)  
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