Hi,
I believe my backup program (CMS ABS Bounceback) is mucking with the links in
my cygwin and work directories when it is creating a backup. It doesn't appear
to affect links created by windows, only those created by cygwin. I don't
fully understand the cygwin links: there are some that
On Fri, 16 May 2008, vapid vapid wrote:
Hi,
I believe my backup program (CMS ABS Bounceback) is mucking with the
links in my cygwin and work directories when it is creating a backup.
It doesn't appear to affect links created by windows, only those created
by cygwin. I don't fully
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008, vapid vapid wrote:
Hi,
I believe my backup program (CMS ABS Bounceback) is mucking with the
links in my cygwin and work directories when it is creating a backup.
It doesn't appear to affect links created by
Thank you for the quick response Igor.
You need to use attrib +R on .lnk files and attrib +S on the
plain-text links.
I swear I tried attrib +R on both types of links earlier, but I must
have only tried the plain-text ones. It does fix the .lnk's as you
said. I'm using these two [slow]
Just tell them that a backup program has no business clearing read-only
and system attributes on any files.
I would actually expect that they probably are just reading the .lnk
information and ignoring the cygwin bits. Even if they preserve the
read-onlyness of the .lnk file, unless they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe someone can come up with a fancier find. I had to spawn a bash to
use the and delay the evaluation of the `cygpath {}`. There's a lot of
quoting to deal with spaces in filenames.
You can speed things up a lot by only running cygpath once, e.g.:
(echo @echo
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:02:38PM -0500, vapid vapid wrote:
Just tell them that a backup program has no business clearing read-only
and system attributes on any files.
I would actually expect that they probably are just reading the .lnk
information and ignoring the cygwin bits. Even if
On Fri, 16 May 2008, vapid wrote:
Thank you for the quick response Igor.
You need to use attrib +R on .lnk files and attrib +S on the
plain-text links.
I swear I tried attrib +R on both types of links earlier, but I must
have only tried the plain-text ones. It does fix the .lnk's as you
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