Help! Deleted (?) /Nowhere directory

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2 total messages Started by bbattles Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:00

#1428

Author: bbattles
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:00

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  Okay, yes, I know it was a stupid mistake, but I somehow accidentally
seem to have deleted my /Nowhere subdirectory. (I first recognized there
was a problem when I found my OS/2 Launchpad had all of the icons replaced
with question marks inside green circles!) Now I'm having some weird
problems with some programs (eg, my PM Mail Internet mailer gives me
onscreen "garbage" when I try to send a Reply message, etc).

  I don't see the /Nowhere subdirectory when I type  DIR  or DIR *.  or
DIR *.* from an OS/2 prompt in the C:\ root directory, although there *is*
a \Nowhere directory listed when I look at the C: drive with the ZTree Bold
shareware utility program. I tried to make a new Nowhere directory by going
to an OS/2 prompt and typing  MD Nowhere  at the C:\ root directory, but the
system says that there already *is* a subdirectory by that name! What do
you suppose is going on?

  Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?

  I'm running IBM OS/2 Warp ver 3.0 "full pack" with the IBM XR_W012 Corrective
Service Pack applied. The   ver /r   command returns the following:

   The Operating System/2 Version is 3.00
   Revision 8.236

  (If you post a reply here, please send a copy via direct E-mail to
bbattles@nai.net, in case I miss reading it on this Newsgroup.)

  Thanks!

  --Brian

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Re: Help! Deleted (?) /Nowhere directory

#1427

Author: Barry Day
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00

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bbattles@nai.net wrote:


>  Okay, yes, I know it was a stupid mistake, but I somehow accidentally
>seem to have deleted my /Nowhere subdirectory. (I first recognized there
>........

>  I don't see the /Nowhere subdirectory when I type  DIR  or DIR *.  or
>DIR *.* from an OS/2 prompt in the C:\ root directory, although there *is*
>a \Nowhere directory listed when I look at the C: drive with the ZTree Bold
>.....

\Nowhere is a hidden directory - that's why Ztree finds it and DIR
doesn't.

Depending on how many times you've re-installed, the nowhere directory
may be called \Nowhere1  \Nowhere2 ..etc (\Desktop can be like this too)

Your system may really be looking for one of these rather than \nowhere.

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