[Virtualacorn-list] HostFS extensions

[Peter Young]

On 26 Apr 2020  David Pitt via Virtualacorn-list 
<virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

It does indeed, and I have the zip safely stored away. Just off for my 
allowed fresh air and exercise, and I'll sort it out when I'm back.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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