[Virtualacorn-list] HostFS extensions

[David Pitt]

Peter Young via Virtualacorn-list, on 26 Apr, wrote:

> I know that I should know the answer to this, and if someone can remind me
> of the answer I promise faithfully to to record it.
> 
> I have this ARMX6 and two installations of VRPC on W10 computers, one a
> full-size RISCBook which essentially acts as my main Windows machine for
> things that RISC OS can't do, and a RISCBook Go which I mainly use when
> I'm away (blessed memories!).
> 
> Yesterday I discovered that on the RISCBook all my gpx and OPro files
> suddenly appeared as text, and it seems that some gremlin had deleted the
> majority of the HostFS extensions. I've been able to restore the vital
> ones, some from memory and some from manually copying them over from the
> RISC Book Go.
> 
> I'm sure there should be  a backup file of these extensions, but I can't
> find it. Is there one, and if so, where should it be?
> 
> Lots of gratitude to anyone who can let me know, and ideas would be
> appreciated as to why these extensions should have vanished.


>From posts I have seen it seems to be a feature of Windows VRPC that the
extensions file can get lost or corrupted.  

See here for a replacement:-

http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/dloadpage/betautil.htm

VRPC is long dead here but this looks to be the relevant file :-

"C:\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA\Plugins\HostFS2\extensions.txt"

HTH.

-- 
David Pitt