On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael S. Altus wrote:
I wrote
PC computer running Windows XP. I have BounceBack software that directs a
C-drive backup to a Seagate external drive. How can I get the desktop to be
backed up as well?
John DeCarlo replied:
Your desktop is on the C: drive. So you are almost certainly backing it up
already.
On my desktop I have a folder, My Computer. I open My Computer and get a
choice of drives, such as C: It seems that my C: drive is in My Computer
which is on the desktop. Can this be resorted for backing up?
In this case, appearances can be deceiving. Try this. Open up your
C drive, then "Documents And Setting". In there, you should see a few
folders, one for "All Users" and one for each user that logs into that
computer. Open up the one corresponding to the username you use. Inside
that folder, you'll see a folder called "Desktop". Open that, and you
should see most of the files that are shown on your desktop.
Basically, Windows has some special code that goes through that Desktop
folder (and anything found under "All Users\Desktop") and displays it on
the desktop. It also shows the "My Computer" and "Network Places" and
your trashcan, etc. depending on your settings. "My Computer" and "Network
Places" don't actually correspond to files or directories on your
disk, so don't need to be backed up themselves.
Incidently, my home PC runs Linux (Fedora with GNOME), and it does
something similar (it just has a slightly different location:
/home/vicky/Desktop). I'm not sure how the Mac handles things
currently... I seem to recall older versions (pre OSX) had a flag
for each file saying whether it should be shown on the desktop,
in addition to, or instead of, its actual location.
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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