Stewart Buckingham wrote:

>OK. I *finally* figured it out.
>
>I needed to keep the folders but move the files. I was never going to 
>have any success trying to moving the folders (see the long running 
>discussions over the last few days... sorry folks!). So I created 
>another subdir where my LSS resides (g:\suites\ss\smasters\wordpro2) and 
>did a pickup/drop-move using the Drives object on each individual file 
>in my Desktop subdir (e:\desktop\programs\installed software\smartsuite\ 
>lotus smartmaster templates\lotus word pro smartmaster templates\..). 
>Now I had the templates on another drive but my template folders were 
>empty. So put shadows of each file back in each folder. So now I have 
>original folders with shadow templates. Voila! Kludgey I guess, (well I 
>am left-handed) but finally achieved the goal. As a positive side 
>effect, I know 100%+ more about the desktop now than I did before this 
>all started.
>
>Thanks to Andy & Mike & everyone else who tried helping out & to 
>everyone else for putting up with this long-winded thread for what was 
>supposed to be a 30sec fix.
>
>Stu/2
>
>PS to Andy:
>I've only just realised where some of the misunderstandings may have 
>arisen. When I was referring to a folder I usually referred to "on the 
>Desktop" and then proceeded to give the location with the
"\" separator 
>when probably ">" would have been better. However, I was
always very 
>specific when I was refering to a folder (on the desktop) or a subdir 
>(on the drive). Maybe you sometimes interpreted one to mean the other, 
>probably because of me using "\" to specify both locations.
>
>  
>
That works.  We were trying to move the whole folder at once so you 
wouldn't have to do each individually.  Just for your knowledge, even 
doing each file you could select them all and move them all at once.

Please don't take this the wrong way.  I am truly interested in knowing 
and it isn't meant as a slam or anything like that.
What is your reason for using OS/2 over windoze?  I ask because one of 
my main reasons is for how OS/2's WPS handles doing things like this.  
Again, I ask out of honest interest in knowing (I have seen to many 
slams in newsgroups and such where someone was told to go use windoze 
when they couldn't figure out the way something worked in OS/2 so I am 
wanting to make sure I don't give you that idea).  I meld the command 
line and use of the WPS to the point that I wrote a small rexx script to 
open folders from the command line. 
The WPS would allow us to have done this in many more ways than what was 
even brought up here and is quite powerful.  It is something I pretty 
much take for granted (and the aggravation I face using windoze and 
can't do some of them is extreme).  You don't seem to have that holding 
you to OS/2. 

Anyway,  glad you got it worked out.
Andy

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