Always copy FROM TreeSize!!

1202 (alarm) I'm having my first go at updating the backups. This consists of copying the latest load of downloads from the Living Room PC (LRPC) (where I do most downloading) to an external HDD; an important next step is sorting the load of downloads into folders which match the sorted folders in the backup locations.

Then, this ExtHDD gets plugged into various other locations and the new data gets copied across to the relevant folders in the backup locations.

I've copied to a couple of locations so far, but have made a bit of a mistake: I've been using File Mangler to do the copying…

As previously detailed, FM (Windows Explorer) doesn't like copying folders it hasn't got permission to access, even though I can give it access without a check or a thought. It's extremely stupid.

What I should be doing is using TreeSize to do the copying, which just needs UAC permission once when the program is started.

I shall use it from the next location onwards.

…or should I go back and redo the places I've already done…?

Can I be zarked to do it?

Maybe I'll just try looking at the properties in FM & TS and see if they agree. The easy way.

An electronic, virtual appendectomy.

1001 The (much) older Lenovo AIO which is in use as my workbench computer has always been a bit dodgy; drivers just aren't available for many of its devices under newer Windowses.

One particular annoyance has been the trying-to-work-but-definitely-doesn’t-work touchscreen. Any touch on the screen is read as a touch in a tiny portion on the lower left side, and sometimes it keeps thinking touches are happening there and the mouse can't be used.

Yesterday, I was finally bothered enough by it to do something about it (N.B. not bothered enough to try to make the touchscreen work - that would be a painful & pointless exercise).

I went into Device Manager - Human Input Devices and simply disabled the two entries which mentioned touchscreen.

There I go again, putting the pro in I.T. professional.

No progress, but good intentions paving the road...

1549 Haven’t done much on the data/NAS/back-up front lately. Actually, what have I been doing?

I really should check it’s all still working and much more importantly, organise an off-site back-up…