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Old December 29th 17, 12:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

How about the other case: 'files outside your "My Documents" tree
are tracked' also _implies_ that files that _did_ exist when the
restore point was created, but were subsequently deleted, will
magically reappear when it's invoked. This was the bit I found hard
to swallow.


That's possible and likely to happen.

Why not test it ? :-)

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This is what VMs are for.


Hm. My main machine (this XP one) is a single-core, with the 2G maximum
it can take; my W7, with 3G, is I _think_ also a single core.

Hence VMs are something I haven't really played with ... (-:
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I think what I'd missed was that only certain file _types_ are tracked.
(Though even that could lead to pretty big restore points.)


And it indeed does, if you delete some large files of the monitored type.
I've witnessed that firsthand, since, on occasion, I've monitored those
RPnnnn system restore subdirectories and files created throughout the day
that lie inside the System Volume Information main folder. You can see all
those if you right mouse click on System Information Volume, and select
Explore.


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