[dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

On 2013-10-08 12:33 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> Wow that is very scary.
>
> That is sort of like having a final solution button on your computer. A really great feature for the average user...not.

Yes. Evidently there is no recovery from this. We start over.

Fortunately her documents weren't trashed, but here we trip over yet 
another miracle of Microsoft design.

Backups on our network go to a shared backup folder (available to 
Everyone) on a network box running win7. On her machine, though, Windows 
Explorer says that to copy such a folder "You'll need to provide 
administrator permission". In Win 8, Explorer does not offer 
administrative permissions, so the copy fails. Nice joke, Microsoft.

Anybody know a workaround for that?

I've has as much enjoyment of Microsoft as I can stand. As soon as we 
recover from this nightmare, I'm going to see how much of our day-to-day 
work can migrate to Linux.

PB

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>
> Did something similar with my wife's emails. Did a full backup of the data but forgot about the configuration files...actually didn't think such a thing would happen...live and learn. When the application was restarted the configuration was automatically reset and all the links, saved addresses and visual setting were gone.
>
> Even after restoration, I will be in the dog house for a long while and this incident will never be forgotten.
>
> I hope you can at least restore somethings. Keep us posted and if I find out anything I will post it as well.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 9:13:06 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare
>
> Trying to fix a connection glitch on her Win 8 laptop, my wife followed
> connection troubleshooting to a "Refresh" option. That sounded good to
> her, so she did it. The result is a machine reset to factory settings.
> Six months' installations and data lost.
>
> She's not the only one:
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-system/can-i-undo-a-refresh-on-windows-8-i-have-no/1fa9d583-b73b-47a5-b2f2-3e6b6dbe1062
>
> Anybody know a fix that works?
>
> PB
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