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  • From: cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com
  • To: cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Deleted Files -- Please Help If You Can
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:09:05 -0500

Hi Folks,

Thanks much for all the responses!

I'm going to download Norton Save and Restore (on a CD or Flash Drive)
this weekend. Does anyone have any tips, or actions to avoid taking?

Thanks again!

Colleen

----- Original Message -----
From: Colleen McCarthy <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 5:40 pm
Subject: [internetworkers] Deleted Files -- Please Help If You Can
To: "Internetworkers@Lists. Ibiblio. Org"
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>

> 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
> copyagain. 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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