I downloaded it (Synctoy) and installed it in Win10 without any issue. I suspect it is a simple programme that does not much interface with system files or drivers so will not present problems.I have about 12 routines set up and as I tend to know what I have changed, only choose to run those I need. It is very quick as well - just enough to make a pot of tea.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
I think computer history has a lesson as the only consistently readable discs of old were the 5.25 inch floppy disks. Never had a problem with them!
Wow that's going back and yes they were reliable. A company I worked for used 8-inch discs. The computer used two - one for the program and one for data. The latter was clever - when it was almost full it created extra space by over-writing the catalog / directory. Hence you lost everything on the disc in one swoop.
The backup system I've used for decades is very labour intensive but (I hope) foolproof. The PC has two hard drives split into eight partitions. (I know Microsoft have always been against partitioning - in the MS house you'd have the toilet, cooker, car and bed all next to each other for convenience).Two partitions are for of programes and swap / temp / caches etc '(junk). This keeps the fragile 'C' drive down to under 2 gig.
No data ever goes on the 'C' drive. Three of the partitions are: documents. photos and military stuff. I regularly back these entire partitions up to remote hard drives. I then run a dupe finder which removes all duplicates(with identical contents) from earlier archives. and am often amazed by what remains. In the past month I've needed, then recovered, about half a dozen files from 8+ years ago which never should have been deleted from the master. But they were!
The dupe finder I use is Duplic8 (shareware) which is superb but limited in certain functions so a bit labour intensive. I paid good money for the licence years ago and never received it despite many many moans.to SWreg. They're still advertising it. How many others have been ripped off.
Plan A is always more effective when the problem you are working on understands that Plan B will involve the use of dynamite
This thread need to be changed to "Lost photographs and the importance of backing up". I would change it myself but in recent times this has been impossible to do.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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