SUMMARY: File Manager loses file

From: sardellp@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com
Date: Tue Sep 27 1994 - 20:52:14 CDT


SUMMARY: The File Manager in OpenWindows lost a file during a drag
          and drop to a directory to which the user did not have
          permission to write.

SOLUTIONS:

1. This is a particularly nasty bug in filemanager, fixed by the file
   manager jumbo patch, 100462-29. This patch also requires a classing
   engine patch (100524 and xview patch 100452).
   Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au

2. To recover files, run fsck and then look under lost&found. Your
   files will be there under a numbered directory.
   John P. Goggin Email: john_goggin@ltx.com

3. I think file mangler renames the file with a leading double dots
   (..) in the original directory.
   Richard Skelton | e-mail : Richard.Skelton@brake.demon.co.uk

4. Sometimes the file(s) get put into the PC, bin or wastebasket areas.
   dewicki@bng.ge.co

Additional thanks go to the following people:
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From: Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no
j_leodolter@ams.co.at
mike@birch.lib.utexas.edu
kat@netcom.com
blenherr@analytics.abb.com
Henry Katz <hkatz@lehman.com>
bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)

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D. Peter Sardella Martin Marietta, M&DS
Valley Forge, PA USA sardellp@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com
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