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From: TMCLELLA@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Mclellan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Un-Movable Files
Message-ID: <1088@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 30 Oct 90 17:43:14 GMT
Reply-To: TMCLELLA@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
Organization: University of Alberta VM/CMS
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Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article

After installing ACCPAC BPI accounting package, I wanted to optimize my
fixed disk using Norton's Speed Disk.  To my surprise, every EXE file in
the ACCPAC directory and subdirectories was identified as "un-movable".
 
A little investigation and playing around found that copying the files
to a different named directory made no difference.  When I renamed all
the EXE files to EQE, that did it - they could be moved in Speed Disk.
 
What I'm wondering is what attribute allows ACCPAC to designate some
files as un-movable, yet by changing their extension, they become
normal files?
 
Any hints would be gratefully appreciated.