In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Tuttle"
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"Alan Edwards" wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Tuttle"
wrote:

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Yes, your are close. This is due to a couple of things and can be
remedied.

1. You have left the System attribute on the false font folder
2. You have left the hidden (and very well hidden) Desktop.ini in the
false font folder.

I strongly suggest you fix this, as the mirror effect of having two
system-enabled Fonts folders can be a bit confusing. You may find it
hard to determine exactly where the fonts are. You may think they are
in both folders but it is not necessarily so. The Fonts folder is not
a WYSIWYG system.

Remove the System attribute on the false folder.

I opened a DOS window, opened that drive, cd'd to the copied Fonts
directory, then did this:

E:FONTS attrib -s *.*

It returned a whole bunch of failure messages, like the following:

Not resetting hidden file E:\fonts\VGASYS.FON
Not resetting hidden file E:\fonts\MARLETT.TTF
etc. ...


What next?
Should I just delete the entire directory? I no longer need this backup, as
I have reinstalled my system.
In future, to make a backup of my fonts would it be better to drag just the
visible *contents* of the font folder, rather than the entire folder?

(Thank you for your help)