RE: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-09 Thread KARR, DAVID via Cygwin
bject: Re: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree Greetings, David Karr! > At my work, I had to have my laptop reimagined for various reasons. I had > them save my cygwin64 tree to external storage first. I now have the laptop > back, and I copied the entire tree back

Re: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-09 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, David Karr! > At my work, I had to have my laptop reimagined for various reasons. I had > them save my cygwin64 tree to external storage first. I now have the laptop > back, and I copied the entire tree back in, but now I realize I should have > done this differently, and I'm wondering

Re: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-08 Thread Fergus Daly via Cygwin
Could try this (see end). Re-reading after writing, it looks most hellishly involved. It uses attrib as Mark has suggested but tries to capture all the required files instead of treating them one by one. And maybe risky :o( Maybe somebody else will come up with something slicker and quicker. Sorry

Re: How to repair the symlinks in a copied cygwin64 tree

2024-08-07 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin
Hi David, On 8/7/2024 1:26 PM, David Karr via Cygwin wrote: At my work, I had to have my laptop reimagined for various reasons. I had them save my cygwin64 tree to external storage first. I now have the laptop back, and I copied the entire tree back in, but now I realize I should have done this