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UG,
when I used the Norton Utilities UNZIP feature, I expected it to use the
stored folders in the ZIP. You're right about Windows 95 allowing this to
happen. I can't believe Microsoft didn't program a safety stop for this.
It is interesting watching your directories just disappear though. LOL I
have been using DOS-based computers for over 14 years and have never had
that happen before. Luckily I divided my HDD into 5 partitions for just
such a disaster.
As for backups, I had some trouble with my tape drive in June and haven't
been able to make it work since (tape drives are so fickle). Apparently,
there's a compatibility problem with my Triton VX chipset motherboard and
tape drives or something in Windows is preventing it from working. I plan
to upgrade in Jan. I'd rather just wait until the AMD K7 comes out and then
upgrade, but I guess that would be too long. In the meantime, I'll rig
something with an extra partition. I wish I could just chuck everything and
go all SCSI. I'm sick of all the complications.
Anyway, I'm up and running again and I only wasted a whole day.....even.
LOL
Daniel.
UG wrote:
> Daniel Martinez writes:
>
> > Jim, there are no instructions on your web page for installing PERL.
> > Losing my Investing Partition is VERY INCONVENIENT!! While I should
> > be able to recover it, I will lose some work. Plus I will have to
> > download about 2-3 weeks of data from Quotes-Plus.
>
> Hey, c'mon; I understand your frustration, but let's be fair; unzipping
> an archive with an UNKNOWN number of files in it, IN your root
> directory, WITHOUT preserving directory structure, is just Not A Smart
> Thing To Do (tm). PARTICULARLY when you could have EASILY perused the
> archive beforehand to see what was in it. What would even possess you
> to do such a thing?
>
> (I'd maintain that using such an OS with such a braindead file-system
> that even ALLOWS this sort of corruption is lunacy, but I digress.)
>
> > This is just another lesson telling us not to use software we are not
> > familiar with.
>
> If you want to think that nothing bad will happen no matter how you
> abuse the tools, sure. If, however, you are living in THIS world, where
> bad things happen, and sometimes it isn't even your fault, you might
> want to practice just a hair of caution now and again.
>
> And where was your nightly backup? This isn't a perfect world man, you
> have to protect yourself against others, but mainly against yourself. I
> do.
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