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Number   :  3969
Date     :  2003-03-06
Author   :  meirman@e...
Subject  :  Re: crosslinking
Size(KB) :  2


At 05:20 PM 3/5/03 -0500, meirman@e... wrote:
>handled or ignored the ends. In earlier cases, I didn't realize I could do
>all this, but at the least I had the content of the mailboxes and I could
>use a Find command to find something if I had to. On a couple occasions
>the files were too big to get into the biggest editor I had so I used File
>Splitter (freeware iirc), or the filesplitting option of System Commander
>to split them into bytesized pieces. They can be put back together again
>with dos commands, and I think the File Splitter I use composes the dos
>command in advance.

Sorry, a couple more things: First I "list" the files because List
programs usually don't care how big a file is, and because one can scroll
through them at enormous speeds. But when I find stuff in a ._dd file
etc. I usually want to edit it to get rid of all the hex stuff. It's only
user files I've ever found missing**, that is mailboxes and their indexes
(which includes a little bit of hex but not much). Other that those index
files, I've never been missing any hex stuff**. So then I may break it in
to 1 or 3 meg pieces, and remove the hex stuff.

**Except when I used Autosave, a terrible program from the same people who
wrote System Commander, which is a nightmare to use if you want to do more
than its main goal. They admitted to me it doesn't even do everything that
is listed on the box. But back to Autosave, the first time I tried to
restore something, a little 3k file, it destroyed 600 megs of files over 2
partitions. Fortunately that didn't include Windows, and it left the
directories so I had a reminder of what had been ruined. I got most of it
back, either from Ndd or Scandisk files or by downloading again. I just
remember that that is probably when most of the mailboxes were destroyed.

Yes I would have been better off with regular backups, but I didn't have a
device*** or space on my HD. 

***By the time I was ready to buy a tape, they had zip drives, and by the
time I was ready to by a zip drive they had Jazz drives, and then I was
really unsure. And finally I decided on a second harddrive.
>
>
>Meir 

Meir 

meirman@e... Baltimore, MD, USA



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