Rectocranial inversion...
Jun. 26th, 2016 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI have obviously been a bit "out of it" as far as knowing what is worth backing up on one's hard drive.
The best approach—seconded by Natalie—is to make recoverable images from time to time. (Indeed, had Montaigne's hard drive not gone flaky on me, that's what I would have done.)
It would appear that my view of the world as consisting of OS and DATA (the respective names of the partitions I created on Montaigne's hard drive after I acquired the machine) is not so clear cut. The AppData that Microsoft nestles away in one's user folder appears to be nothing but data.
It's where, for example, Thunderbird squirrels away all of my mail, for one thing.
So for most of the day, while I've been slaving over a hot translation, I've been using something called Midnight Commander on my Linux laptop to copy files from Montaigne's drive to a plain-vanilla USB drive.
Midnight Commander has the advantage of not soiling itself (i.e., quitting without telling you why) if it tries to copy an unreadable file. Instead, among other options, I can elect to skip said file, whereupon the program will pick things up with the next file to be copied. So far, I think I've had to skip fewer than a dozen files, all of them with incomprehensible names that suggest they were temporary to begin with.
The thing that really blows me away about AppData?
So far, Midnight Commander has copied 65 GB of files!
The best approach—seconded by Natalie—is to make recoverable images from time to time. (Indeed, had Montaigne's hard drive not gone flaky on me, that's what I would have done.)
It would appear that my view of the world as consisting of OS and DATA (the respective names of the partitions I created on Montaigne's hard drive after I acquired the machine) is not so clear cut. The AppData that Microsoft nestles away in one's user folder appears to be nothing but data.
It's where, for example, Thunderbird squirrels away all of my mail, for one thing.
So for most of the day, while I've been slaving over a hot translation, I've been using something called Midnight Commander on my Linux laptop to copy files from Montaigne's drive to a plain-vanilla USB drive.
Midnight Commander has the advantage of not soiling itself (i.e., quitting without telling you why) if it tries to copy an unreadable file. Instead, among other options, I can elect to skip said file, whereupon the program will pick things up with the next file to be copied. So far, I think I've had to skip fewer than a dozen files, all of them with incomprehensible names that suggest they were temporary to begin with.
The thing that really blows me away about AppData?
So far, Midnight Commander has copied 65 GB of files!
