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WPS shadows - shortcuts not working...

Started by NNYITGuy, 2008.04.03, 18:27:59

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NNYITGuy

Hi,

I have eCS 1.2R.  Use hpfs for boot of C:. JFS for drives G:, H:, I:, J:.  I needed to create shortcuts from I: subfolders on desktop.  The shadows - shortcuts do not work.  Tested same procedure from all other JFS drives and the shortcuts - shadows work fine.  I thought maybe WPS shortcuts - shadows would not recognize a drive J:, so I used LVM to change the drive letter to E:.  Same problem even with E: and a reboot just to make sure WPS understood J: to E: change.

Any ideas as to what is happening here?

Thank you,
Todd Simpson aka NNYITguy
Todd J Simpson (IT Consultant)
Business Automation Technologies
(Professional Products and Services.  Business to Business...)

warpcafe

Hi Todd,

two suggestions:
- is there anything "special" with the folder names on that drive like embedded blanks?
- can you access the folders via drive object -> folder tree and/or from within a command line?
  (if not, perhaps there is something like a "dirty" flag that locks access to the drives/folders)

Regards
Thomas
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy

NNYITGuy

Hi Thomas,

If I just create a new folder called "Folder" even from the root.  Use L-CTRL + L-SHFT + R-CLCK + DRAG to create a shortcut / shadow to the desktop.  The proper look icon appears on the desktop.  But a DBL- L-CLICK avails to nothing.  R-CLICK menu looks fine, but Open shows no options to open.  Properties only has tabs for Icon and Window.  No tabs for File / Menu / Background / ect...

I use this drive for daily transactions of nearly 120,000 file updates with no reported problems with data integrity.  I use PEER also on the same drive daily that serves up to 80,000 other files with no reported problems. CHKDSK reports no problems either. 

This is a stumper for me! This is the largest JFS partition I have even had, weighing in at  488Gig formatted on a 500Gig disk.  I am planning a 750Gig disk upgrade in the near future and to use the whole disk for JFS.  I will copy the entire contents via dSync to move the data from the current drive to the new drive.

Before I copy the data to the new JFS partition, I will create a simple folder on the new JFS and try to create a shortcut / shadow.  This process will probably happen near the end of April.  I will update this post at that time with the results.

Any ideas until then?

Best regards and thank you,
Todd
Todd J Simpson (IT Consultant)
Business Automation Technologies
(Professional Products and Services.  Business to Business...)

Pete

Hi Todd

I think I would try these actions in this order to see if the problem gets cured:-

1] Edit config.sys and change the jfs.ifs line to Force chkdsk on the possibly dirty drive E: - may as well do the rest while we are at it...

IFS=C:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:+E+G+I

Reboot and go for coffee; maybe a full meal with a nearly 500Gb drive to check  :-)

My reason for suggesting the above is that it is possible for the system to hang/crash leaving the filesystem "dirty" but without the "dirty" flag - I have had this happen several times when testing beta drivers and can state that the drive is usually useable but may not respond well to WPS commands, apps on the drive cannot be started from Desktop objects; very much like your problem. The standard IFS= line does not run chkdsk unless the "dirty" flag is showing. The above line forces chkdsk regardless of the "dirty" flag.

That may cure the problem if not...


2] Run checkini (WPTools) followed by a run of cleanini ( http://www.ca-arnold.de/download/cleanini55.zip )


If the problem still persists I would then be stuck on what to try next...

Hope 1 or both of the above help

Pete