On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:46:02 -0400, Bert Kinney wrote:
>Are you referring to Previous Versions?
>http://bertk.mvps.org/html/shadow.html
Yes he is.
>piook wrote:
>> Okay, when I first heard about Vista one of the things that I thought was
>> really cool was that it would allow for a local version of Previous Versions
>> (Volume Shadow Copy, or TimeWarp) that would allow a file that was accidently
>> changed, deleted, or otherwise lost to be "returned" to a previous state.
The same Shadow Copy engine powers both System Restore (which Vista
changed the name of, for no good reason that I can see) and the new
Previous Versions feature you refer to above.
It's also involved in Backup, i.e. is what allows files to be backed
up even though they are in use.
>> Well over a year later I finally got a laptop with Vista Home Premium
>> a couple months after that I screwed up a spreadsheet and I
>> remembered the Volume Shadow Copy feature. So I start looking
>> online as how to access this feature and find out that it is only
>> available in Business Editions and up.
That's MS for you - why would a home user (even a "premium" one) want
to see their data again? Only business people make "real" data; home
users just watch TV (media center), right?
>> But then I found out that actually the Home versions of Vista do have Volume
>> Shadow Copy, and they even make the same "snapshots" as Business do.
>> But you just can't access these snapshots via "previous versions".
Yup
>> So now I am thinking... And I wonder why should I be dedication up to 15%
>> percent of my hard drive to this if I can't access it. So the first thing I
>> do is try and find out exactly how much room this is taking up on my system
>> and find out that running VSSADMIN in an elevated command prompt can show me
>> and I find that about 12% of my hard drive is being used by Volume Shadow
>> Copy. So can I turn it off and get this back. Well yes, but then I throw out
>> System Restore in the process. So that is out because I like to try things
>> and explore the net, and System restore is my best friend in that regard. I
>> also could go ahead and use VSSADMIN to resize the size of the volume shadow
>> copy, but that reduces the number of system restores, and still leaves me
>> with old copies of files that I cannot access.
Yup. See Item #3 here...
http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/...ry?_c=BlogPart
>> So is there any way I can either a access these files without upgrading
No, though if you do upgrade (to Ultimate in your case, as there's no
upgrade path from OEM Home * to Business) you may see all your
previously hidden "previous versions" - including those made before
the upgeade by the useless (data file) activities of Shadow Copy.
And no, Shadow Copy is one lump - it's not possible to filter out
"previous versions" traffic, nor is it possible to set different
limits for SR and PV (see Item #2 in that URL).
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Who is General Failure and
why is he reading my disk?
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