Re: Marriage pictures GONE!

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From: Peter D (please_at_.sk)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:55:51 GMT

> One of the very last things WinXP does before shutting down is to save the
user's most recent settings

Quite true.

>, which naturally includes the contents of the desktop.

"Naturally"? Hardly. "Contents"? Define what you mean by "contents". At the
moment, with your "the Desktop is in a reality a virtual folder in the
computer's RAM" explanation you are quite wrong. The "Desktop" is an actual
folder on an actual hard drive. While settings in RAM may be written to the
hard drive at shutdown, the contents of the Desktop are always on the hard
drive.

To the original poster: Search your HD for the name of the files(s) in teh
folder, or the name of the folder, or dig through the various copies of the
Desktop folder(s) to see if your folder of pics is in there. Good luck.

I agree with your recommendation to Copy/Paste rather than Cut/Paste --
especially from removable media.

Oops. Just noticed another basic error. Oh dear. :-)

You said: "Cut and Paste, which deletes the original files as they're loaded
into RAM." Not so. The "Cut" occurs after the "Paste" to the new location
has been verified. IOW, Cut/Paste is not Delete from A/Copy to RAM -> Write
to B, but rather Copy from A to RAM -> Write to B -> Verify B -> Delete from
A. This is very basic stuff, you know. Very basic stuff.

> If power was interrupted before this save
> action was complete, the files very well may be permanently gone. The
> Chkdsk that you bypassed _might_ have recovered some of the files, but
> the odds are against it.
>
> This is one of the reasons I always advise people the not save
> important files on the desktop, which is, in reality a virtual folder
> in the computer's RAM, while the pertinent user is logged in.
> Additionally, I usually advise people to Copy and Paste, which leaves
> the original files intact should something go wrong, rather than to
> Cut and Paste, which deletes the original files as they're loaded into
> RAM.

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