I think system restore deleted lots of my cs files on Vista Ultimate

Dave wrote:
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> "Bert Kinney" <> wrote in message
> news:...
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>> Dave wrote:
>>> Wonderful...
>>>
>>> Pretty much most or probably all of the missing files were created
>>> after the restore point by downloading zips and extracting into
>>> project folders under my Documents folder. I was afraid that was what
>>> happened but documentation claimed elsewise. I did not take a
>>> detailed inventory as I had way too many files and I had to restore
>>> from my backups anyway.
>>
>> As you now know, monitored file types are monitored in the Documents
>> folder in Vista. The only safe place to keep monitored file types is
>> to store them on and unmonitored drive/partition.
>
> Luckily I had made a backup of my source code I had been editing onto
> another couple drives. I just don't trust the VIsta file system as I had
> severe problems with IIS using old shadow copies as well when files and
> folders were replaced.
>
>>> That MSFT would delete these files is an unbelieveably horrible bug!
>>> Especially when they claim to not touch files in that folder. And to
>>> just rip out SOME of the files out of a project folder and not the
>>> entire folder. What stupid Microsoft twit could possibly envision
>>> that as a "feature" is beyond me. To arbitrarily remove files that
>>> were manually placed in a personal folder. Just incredible.
>>>
>>> Really really bad bug imo!
>>
>> This is not a bug, this is by deign to help protect the system against
>> malicious system type files.
>
> Perhaps by design but even so a bug since poorly designed and very
> dangerous as they claim to not touch "personal files" and only
> "installed" and "Executable" files none of which describe the .cs files
> I unzipped and they deleted. If they want to call it a rollback to a
> checkpoint, which would be a fine feature, then they should do and say
> exactly that but not be vague, arbitrary and misleading when describing
> what system restore does and then basically randomly delete some files
> at their undocumented whim out of an unzipped folder that was created
> since the checkpoint yer not all of the files or the folders since. That
> is just pure and simple brain dead by someone very inexpeienced in
> computers and IT and software development and life in general. And I was
> certainly not told in Vista or Ssytem Resore help they would delete
> these sort of files and was strongly and clearly led to believe they
> absolutely would not delete them.
>
> - Dave

I agree with you. And the sad point is that information, particularly
technical information is not being released for Vista as it was in XP early
in the game.


Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
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