[dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

On 2013-10-08 2:53 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> At the risk of being boringly repetitive, I would set up a backup system, across your network using BitTorrent Sync. It is super-fast, runs on everything and, if setup properly, can take to pain out backups.

That might help in the long run.

Anybody know a way to copy from Win8 Users folder to a shared Win 7 
netowok drive?

PB

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>
> Wish I could offer more but it appears that only someone in Microsoft or maybe someone who quit the company (and left a bomb in vengeance) can assist you at this moment.
>
> 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 11:54:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [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
>
> -----
>
>> 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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