On 1/26/06, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just a little warning to try and save anyone else from suffering the pain
> that I am going through.
>
> I made the terrible mistake of trying to use M$ migwiz.exe to recover my
> old cygwin installation from a dead machine's drive to a
> new one.
>
> I thought it might be just a simple archiver that would conveniently help
> move all my stuff across without losing ACLs and so on.
>
> Unfortunately M$ think they're just soooooooo clever and decided to "add
> value" to it by having it not just transfer files
> verbatim, but if they are shortcut .lnk files it apparently seems to
> regenerate them from scratch. Of course, it doesn't actually
> regenerate a file that is equivalent to the one that was originally there.
>
> I now have an massively damaged cygwin installation in which every single
> softlink has been replaced with a broken .lnk file. I
> can't even begin to imagine how long it's going to take me to repair it, but
> it isn't going to be fun :-(
>
may be of some help (find broken symlinks):
find / -L -type l
-type c
l symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the
-follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link is
broken. If you want to search for symbolic links when -L
is in effect, use -xtype.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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