[internetworkers] Deleted Files -- Please Help If You Can
Jim Ray
jim at neuse.net
Wed Jan 3 20:59:55 EST 2007
You might want to look at robocopy from Microsoft in the future (robust
copy). It allows you to set switches to copy only files that have changed.
It is a freebie as well.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
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From: internetworkers-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Colleen
McCarthy
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:38 PM
To: Internetworkers at Lists. Ibiblio. Org
Subject: [internetworkers] Deleted Files -- Please Help If You Can
Hi Folks,
On Monday I was backing up certain files and folders on my laptop to a flash
drive. When I do this, I put all of the files and folders into one folder
and just copy the big folder to the flash.
The copy halted on a file that was open. I closed the file, but could not
find the icon for the copy that was in progress. It appeared that
attempting to copy the open file had halted the copy. Does it usually
happen that trying to copy an open file causes the entire copy to halt? If
not, is there somewhere else that I could have looked other than the tray to
see information on the copy?
I did a show properties on the flash drive, and it only had about 660MB on
it. The folder that I was copying was 800MB, so I knew that all of the
files and folders within it had not been copied.
I decided to delete the files off of the flash drive and start the copy
again. I started the delete, then walked away from the laptop. When I came
back a few hours later-- the files were gone from the flash drive-- but most
of them were also gone from the folder from which I was copying them! I
looked in the recycle bin and they weren't there. I searched the laptop for
a few of them, and search could not find them.
Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? Does anyone know if
these files are still on my machine?
I'm running XP.
Thanks much!
Colleen
(h) 919.460.0641
(c) 919.349.4015
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