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Number : 3872 Date : 2003-02-28 Author : james sadler Subject : Re: Backing Up a Personal PC Size(KB) : 5
You can easily use xxcopy to delete files that other utilities refuse to delete. Create an empty directory named Wow then cd into Wow. Now type in xxcopy c:\wow /clone c:\temp .. You have just cloned the empty directory. Take a look at the temp directory. It will be empty. Apparently Microsoft has an instruction set that limits the use of del commands even if they are written by a third party. But xxcopy is able to sidestep that effort. I will warn you that Win XP is a bit on the sensitive side about forced deletions. Even if you do not delete system files or other obviously critical files your XP machine may act up a bit when you delete huge numbers of files. I have found that a reboot and defrag tends to make XP happy again. My little trick seemed to work better in Win98 SE. --- Lawrence Clemens wrote: > Well I do have NAV on the computer, but I don't > think > that's the culprit. I have found the directory and > sub directory C:\RESTORE\Temp where all these Temp > files reside. Other sub dirs under RESTORE are SPD, > LOG, EXTRACT and ARCHIVE. Also there are these files > under RESTORE: VxDMon.cfg, DSINFO.DAT, DISKCFG.DAT, > SRDISKID.DAT and VxDMon.DAT The TEMP file has > probably a couple hundred files and they are growing > - > as I see by looking at the somewhat smaller number > on > my backup disk that I have not yet backed up to > today. > If I select them all, and go to delete them, one or > another is access denied. > > Sorry to take this group off topic on this business, > but it was the xXXCOPY process that first brought it > to my attention. I'm open to suggestions to > eliminate > this problem. > > Lastly, even further off-topic, for folks that don't > want NAV, Grisoft.com offers free AV software. It > seems to be working fine on a second computer. Larry > Clemens > Further off --- meirman@e... wrote: > > At 02:54 PM 2/25/03 -0800, Lawrence Clemens wrote: > > >Here is a beginners question relative to XXCOPY > in > > a > > >personal PC format. > > > > > >I have been using the freeware version of XXCOPY > > to > > >back up my cloned hard drive (W98SE) to the > older, > > >original drive. Everything seems to fine, but I > > have > > >what I suspect is a pretty elementary question. > > >Before I start my back up, I use Disk Clean up in > > >Windows System Tools to remove temporary Internet > > >files. Then I start XXCOPY.EXE Sometimes I get > lot > > >and lots of lines like like > > >C:\restore\temp\A00065858.cpy and then the > entry > > >copy failed > > > > I'm running Win98FE > > > > Are you using something like Norton Utilities with > > Norton Recycle Bin Protect? > > > > I'm using the Norton System Works version One and > it > > doesn't have those > > names (It has C:\Recycled\Nprotect\*.*) but they > > could have changed file > > names by now. It assigns sequential numerical > file > > names like you show > > above. It's not so easy to delete them. In fact > > for months I didn't even > > know they were there, and then for a while I still > > didn't know how to > > delete them. > > > > When I Empty the Recycle Bin, or use > > Accessories/Disk Cleanup it has no > > effect on these files. It's like a second-level > > recycle bin, that catches > > files deleted by programs that don't know about > the > > Recycle Bin. I think > > but I'm not sure yet when I say Shift-Delete, to > > totally delete a file and > > bypass the recycle bin, that it still saves them > in > > this directory. But > > when I click on the Recylcle Bin icon on the > > desktop, it only displays the > > Recyled Bin and doesn't even mention that these > > exist. I have to > > right-click and then click on Empty Norton > Protected > > Files, and this > > version gives an all or nothing at all delete. > > (Although Norton Undelete > > looks here and lets you pick individual files, and > I > > could use File > > Manager, and probably Explorer, to delete > individual > > files by looking at > > the actual directory, but since they are renamed > to > > these sequential > > numeric names, I don't know which one I want. > > > > > > I even have viruses in this Norton Protect area, > > viruses that I thought I > > deleted from my email attachment directory. > > > > BTW, Norton changes the icon for the Recycle Bin > and > > puts a Norton Shield > > over part of it. If you do > > Right-Click/Properties**, you can find some > > very interesting parms to set, three separate > tabs. > > > > > > **Alt-enter doesn't seem to work on the Desktop. > > > > > > > > > > > > >What does this mean? Should I be concerned? > > >Larry Clemens > > > > > > > Meir > > > > meirman@e... Baltimore, MD, USA > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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