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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacTools Deluxe Backup fixed, but CAUTION!
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.085025.17918@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 08:50:25 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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pool@milton.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool) writes:
>....
>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".

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........
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