Re: Warning: Never use M$ files+settings transfer wizard to move a cygwin installation.

[* * <richardvoigt at gmail dot com>]

On 1/26/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> 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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