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From: pool@milton.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MacTools Deluxe Backup fixed, but CAUTION!
Message-ID: <5475@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 00:44:10 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Today I received the corrected version of MacTools Deluxe Backup from
Central Point Software.  The bug that saved the wrong folders in "setups"
when you have more than 1 folder with the same name has apparently been
fixed.  However, beware of a possible misunderstanding of how this
feature works, which I believe is not clearly explained in the manual.
When you want to regularly back up the entire contents of some folder,
you might think you can do this by selecting that folder and saving the
selection in a setup, then opening that setup each time you want to back
that folder up.  This is wrong.  What you are really saving is the list
of all the files that were in that folder when you saved the setup.  If
you later add any files to the folder, they will not get backed up!  Thus,
unless I misunderstand this program, it offers no way to save a selection
of whatever the contents of a given folder may be at the time of each
backup.  Given how I would guess most people manage their files, this seems
to me a not very useful scheme.  But then, I mustn't know much about most
people, since Central Point accompanied their update disk with a note saying
that the wrong-folders bug was "unlikely to affect most people".