Microsoft employees are not guaranteed to read these forums, which are 100%
user supported. If anyone posts here claiming to be a Microsoft employee,
it is usually someone who has been improperly supervised at work and doesn't
have enough duties to keep him or her busy. That is soon fixed.
Cheers,
Earle
"Turner Morgan" <tfmorgan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To anyone from Microsoft who may be reading these posts,
>
> You really need to do some work on the restore side of Live OneCare. I
> somehow (slip of the fingers on the keyboard, OOOOPS!, or just a general
> dummy) inadvertently deleted the Downloads subdirectory I had created to
> hold downloaded/trial software. No big deal. The software I had decided
> to pay for was immediately transferred to DVD, sometimes left on the HD or
> deleted.
>
> But, I decided this would be a good opportunity to test Live OneCare's
> restore function. I'm not pleased with it. The individual file restore
> function apparently can't search by subdirectory (I don't know what
> Windows Vista does to subdirectories ("flolders" for you semi-Mac users;
> I, having cut my teeth in DOS, refuse to call them "folders"!) but the
> restore function evidently cannot search on the "English" version of a
> subdirectory, having tried several variants). I had to search on *.*,
> i.e., show everything in the catalog going back to 1/6/2008 which turns
> out to be a lotta files!!
>
> I found a few *.ZIP files but a different search for *.exe, which required
> another agonizingly slow catalog creation (no, this is not a dog of a
> machine, ASUS Crosshair mainboard, AMD 64 X2 dual core, 4Gb RAM, WD Raptor
> X HDs, etc., etc.) showed up nothing. I *KNOW* some of those files were
> self-extracting executables but Live OneCare said there were no such
> files! I find this hard to believe!
>
> I have been doing backups with Live OneCare since 1/6/2008 every Sunday at
> 11am. How come Live OneCare showed only the one catalog from 1/6/2008?
> Maybe it's the way I have OneCare set up which I don't remember the
> specifics.
>
> What I would like to see in a future incarnation of Live OneCare's restore
> function is a Windows Explorer display showing the files in their
> associated subdirectories with check boxes for you to select the file(s)
> you want restored. At the very least, the current dialog box that
> displays the search result should be made resizeable. Honestly, some of
> these subdirectory strings won't fit into that box! But, the box is not
> sizeable! Who dropped the candy on that one?!
>
> And, while your at it, why not create an html file for the user to examine
> the backup contents to see if it is even worthwhile to attempt a file
> restore? All the files in the backup subdirectory are binary and not
> human-readable.
>
> Anyway, there's my input for the next update for what it's worth.
>
> Turner
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