[dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 8 16:32:48 CDT 2013


Another excellent choice.

You just have to script your own automation.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 2:09:05 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare

Check out ShadowCopy:

http://www.runtime.org/shadow-copy.htm

On 8 Oct 2013 at 15:35, Peter Brawley wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----
> 
> >
> > 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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