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[cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com]

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
> 
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> 
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