A bug by design. It's supposed to behave this way to replace any user files
with known good copies in the event of system corruption. Something that was
actually a common complaint in XP, that System Restore did not protect user
data. My thought is that more configurability would be a nice thing to
offer.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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"rmeacham" <rmeacham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I would still think this is a bug. System restore should not replace user
> data files.
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you can read here:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/...ne/backup.mspx,
>> the shadow copies of user data are now part of the system restore
>> process.
>> To my knowledge, there is no way to single out folders and exempt them
>> from
>> this process. I would consider moving the data, or even the entire user
>> accounts documents folder, to a different volume and ensuring that drive
>> is
>> not monitored (System Protection tab of the advanced system properties).
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "rmeacham" <rmeacham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:390AFCE1-7C11-41F2-A860-B8B0410766F5@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a folder under C:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio
>> >2005\Projects
>> > that contains C# code and a compiled dll that is used in a few
>> > different
>> > applications. When I perform a system restore, the entire c# folder is
>> > restored back to the same point as the system restore point. I was
>> > able
>> > to
>> > use the shadow copy feature to recover changes I made. However,
>> > performing a
>> > system restore should not affect user data (in this case my c# code).
>> > Is
>> > there a way to tell Vista that this is a user directory and not a
>> > system
>> > directory.
>>
>>