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From: humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keywords: Turtle Restore
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Date: 11 Apr 89 21:05:30 GMT
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In article <1450@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>In article <6840@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes:
>> Other than manually copying all of the files 
>> off of the floppies I can find no way to do this using Turtle (or any of
>> the support programs).
>
>You have hit on the only solution there is: copy the files from floppy
>to your hard disk.  Too bad for you that TOS 1.4 isn't out yet:
>it'd be a lot faster.
>
>Did you know that you can use the desktop to copy a whole floppy to a
>hard disk, including (recursively) copying directories, by dropping the
>floppy disk's icon onto the open window of the hard disk's root
>directory? That'll be fastest. 
>
>============================================
>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

Well, yes but.... My only gripe about this is what do I do if Turtle broke
a large folder up over several disks? Enlighten me if I'm wrong (because it
is entirely possible), but when I try to copy a folder to a place where a
folder with that name already exists, it wants to overwrite the entire folder.
I had lots of folders like this when I did my manual restore. I had to open
the folder and copy out each file individually.

But then again, I can't really think of a solution to this (at least from
the desktop). I think I'm really spoiled because I've used DiskFit on the
mac which is truly fantastic. I just assumed that such an application would
exist on other machines.... I guess not.

Mark Frost
	Office of the the Computing Coordinator
	Humanities Division
	University of California at Santa Cruz
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