Re: (Fwd) Re: PalmUtilities BackUp
brian@eit.COM (Brian Smithson)
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Date: Wed, 18 May 94 20:20 PDT
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From: brian@eit.COM (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: PalmUtilities BackUp
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On May 18, 4:20pm, Jack Miller wrote:
> Subject: (Fwd) Re: PalmUtilities BackUp
> On Tue, 17 May 94 16:20 PDT Brian Smithson wrote:
> >>> I keep lots of stuff in C:\GEOWORKS\DOCUMENT and copying
> those files to C:\BACKUP\GEOWORKS\DOCUMENT just doesn't make
> sense to me. I'd call it a bug, or at least an oversight. Any
> workaround?
>
> This phenomenon is a Geoworks feature. In the same way that a
> parallel file structure on the memory card, eg.
> C:\GEOWORKS\DOCUMENT, is mirrored by the B[INTERNAL] drive to
> the system, it is also mirrored to the Backup utility. The Backup
> utility only copies all of whatever it sees in the
> B[INTERNAL]:\GEOWORKS\DOCUMENT folder. It sees what the
> system sees.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Jack Miller
Fair enough. I was hoping that GEOS would allow you to make the distinction
between real and parallel files, since at least the File Manager display
routines seem to be able to do that.
Ideally, it would be an option. Sometimes one wants to make a backup copy of
everything in DOCUMENT in order to protect against inadvertent changes, and
sometimes one wants to make a backup copy of only the real B: contents in order
to protect against problems with the Zoomer itself.
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-Brian Smithson brian@eit.com
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