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dog ate my desktop
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:21:43 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Shadow writes: On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:57:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Paul writes: [] On WinXP, files outside your "My Documents" tree are tracked. Say you normally keep Firefox downloads [] Restore Point. Files kept in the "officially blessed" parts of C: are unaffected, so nothing in My Documents gets added or subtracted to match the way it was three days ago. Paul Are you saying _everything_ else - or maybe everything else on C: - gets tracked, and potentially restored (synced)? This must make for a huge tracking area (if for example you [or the system] delete a few feature films). They have another record in the NTFS stream and also various in the registry. Long after you deleted the original files. Yes, it's there for forensic purposes. What else ? []'s I wasn't in tinfoil-hat mode - just more surprised at the storage involved. From what is said above, if you deleted a few feature films, then unless you were storing them in an "officially blessed" area, invoking a Restore Point would magically restore them; I was just thinking that, if true, this implies a backup storage area as big as your disc (or maybe half as big), which seems unlikely, System Restore does not restore all of the data, only the internals of Windows necessary to make it run. An image is just that, a bit copy of the drive. Images are very big, essentially the same size as all of the data on the drive, minus whatever compression they may do. Hence trying to make C: as small as you can. (like not storing media files there). You can easily back up and restore "data" simply using COPY or drag and drop. Getting a working version of a post W/98 windows system is more complicated. XCOPY worked OK to copy a W/98 machine with the right switches. |
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