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Article #39793Trouble with DiskFit
From: John Williams
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1989 03:29
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1989 03:29
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I have been religiously backing up my work with Diskfit version 1.01 every
few days, and have been impressed with its ease of use. However the other
day I did the unmentionable and deleted an entire folder's worth of important
stuff. No worries, thinks I, just retrieve it all (about 60 files) from my
last backup of a couple of days ago. This went fine, except that I noticed
that several files were not there.
The reason it turned out was because Diskfit saves folders which are inside
other folders as folders in their own right on the desktop of the backup
disks. So if you have two folders with the same name, but inside other
folders on your desktop, Diskfit seems to ignore one completely. This is
just what happened to me, and of course the one it ignored was the one I
wanted!
Perhaps I have been doing something wrong, or perhaps there is a later version
of Diskfit which gets around this. In the meantime I am changing my backup
procedures, and I suggest to anyone using Diskfit that you look out for
this potential problem.
John M Williams
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!munnari!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!diemen!tasis!jmw From: jmw@tasis.utas.oz (John Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Trouble with DiskFit Keywords: Backup Message-ID: <872@tasis.utas.oz> Date: 23 Mar 89 03:29:43 GMT Organization: Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Uni of Tasmania, Australia Lines: 25