Doing backups. Very simple, one would think, a simple batchfile, the
important line of which is:

Robocopy c:\ I:backup /s /s /xo /XJ /np /ndl /w:1 /r:1 /Tee
/Log+:%Logfile%.rtf /xf *.bak *.lnk *.cat *.regtrans-ms *.tmp
pagefile.sys hiberfil.sys /xd C:\Windows

(Which being translated means copy drive C:\ to directory Backup on
drive I, include subdirectories, only copy those changed, exclude
junctions, don't show progress {% copied} wait 1 second if something
'fails" and repeat once if it does, where to log all this, don't copy
bak link &c do not copy anything in Directory "C:\Windows". )

It works. (Yeah!)

Unfortunately, despite having "emptied the recycle bin", there are
7 gigs of files copied from said "empty" recycle bin to
I:\Backup\$Recycle. And directory I:\Backup is now a hidden system
directory.
Apparently, when you copy one of the magic directories, it changes
everything else to also being a magic directory. I think that if I
had the toggle
/a-:SH
(unset attributes System and Hidden)
to the command line, it might work "right"

But that also leads to the other cause of my screaming.

From the command line, on drive D: there is a directory D:\Music.

But in the navigation panels, there is no such directory. Just
the Magic Name "My Music." Naturally,when you go and build a
batchfile to copy from "My Music" it can't find it. but when you do
get the command line correct, it copies not to I:\BackupD\Music, but
to "I:\BackupD\My Music". Never mind that you already have a
perfectly good directory which already has some of the files already
backuped, which need the rest of them copied over. Nope, duplication
of effort is the way Microsoft rolls.

And they want to tell me that this is "improving my computer
experience." Fnord, don't get me started on trying to fix the "no new
user profile" issue I'm having. I could have bought a new refurbished
computer and be up and running by now!

Arrgh.


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pyotr filipivich
The question was asked: "Is Hindsight overrated?"
In retrospect, it appears to be.