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| Thread ID: 21570 | 2002-06-29 01:28:00 | The Problem - The Solution | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 58163 | 2002-06-29 01:28:00 | Bare with me please. The Problem - Elderly person running a business, takes some bookings by email on the Internet. Also records daily work stats on an Excel sheet saved in a particular folder. Has had major PC hicups in the past, nearly lost all the data, so is buying Laptop to use as standby when PC finally falls over. Is not familiar with Winzip, unzipping etc, so needs a Batch File that will carry out the following Wip clean a floppy in A Drive (floppy will be apropiatly labelled) Zip the following folder C:\1OHP onto A Drive A reminder Notice here would be nice, requesting insert Floppy Disk called Inbox. A reminder notice would be nice for each of the 4 disks.. Wipe clean floppy Zip up Inbox.idx (from the Win95 default location) - I can ammed the final path in the Bat file. Same for Outbox.idx Same for OE Addressbook ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ At the other Laptop end, a batch file that will Wipe 1OHP folder, then unzip from the !OHP from A drive into C Drive Same for Inbox Same for Outbox Same for addressbook. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The lady lives 3hrs drive away in a small town. We travel there on holiday, I help her out on Word & Excel problems, and any other irritants she comes accross, but Im not that familiar with writing bach files. I can modify command lines etc as required, but the Del (delete) function I dont want to experiment with. Im not that familiar with Unzip command in a Batch file. Thanks for anny assistance. After losing some of her data once before, she is now well away of the value of backing up, but to date does just her 1OHP folder. Ideally she should backup the files listed above as well. I will instruct her to keep her email Inbox & Outbox free of unwanted attachements etc, and the need to compress these folders, prior to backing up. This will be of great assistance to her, when one day her PC falls over. The Laptop will not be gathering dust, I understand her husband will be using it occasionally.... Thanks again.....John |
John W (523) | ||
| 58164 | 2002-06-29 01:54:00 | you are proberly better off with one of the many backup programs that are advailable. didn't pcworld do some testing on them recently?? far easier than mucking around with configs. i personally don't like useing floppys for backups. i get to many with bad sectors. plus they are just to small. look at getting a zip drive. i would also be wondering whats causing these 'hiccups'. look at fixing the source of those, have good backups of all software and use laptop for play and as a spare machine in case the buisness machine dies totally. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 58165 | 2002-06-29 02:19:00 | Agree with Tweak'e Floppy disk failure is very high, low volume of use now means few manufacturers, quality is not what it was. I know of so many crises caused by this its past a joke, people think that because its on a disk its safe. You would need at least two copies of the disks. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 58166 | 2002-06-29 02:35:00 | The problem with floppies is that there is *no* check that files have been written correctly . At best, VERIFY ON checked that a file had been written . A batch file should have a line, e.g.: pkzip -t a:\*.zip to see if the file is readable. I'm not sure whether pkzip returns a result code which the batch file could test. | Graham L (2) | ||
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