Hi,
To my knowledge, it doesn't "decide" anything other than to grab the shadow
copies when a system restore is invoked. Like I said, probably the simplest
solution would be to move the user account's document folder to another,
unmonitored volume.
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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 have a different folder at the same level that contains java code. The
> system restore did not reset the java code folder. In fact as far as I
> can
> tell no other user files on my machine were reverted back to the restore
> point. Only this one folder. Do you know how, if this is by design, the
> system restore decides what to restore and what to ignore?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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:F9906709-7B38-4BBA-82A7-035CBD35AED5@microsoft.com...
>> >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.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>