[softwarelist] Re: SyncDiscs Problem

In article <sF8nHDDfQVkGFwWU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4eff49eee8bric@xxxxxxx>, Brian Carroll
> <bric@xxxxxxx> writes
> >I have used SyncDiscs for a daily backup of a few important
> >completing it stopped with an error 'SyncDiscs has suffered an

> Hard to say. Over the years people have reported crashes,
> however they have not been reproducible - I assume that if the
> layout of directories and files is just right then they
> trigger a bug in SyncDiscs.

[Snip]

Steve's reply caused me to have a dig about in the directories
being backed up for anything unusually large.  I used !Coeden
which gives a tree structure and a graphical indication of file
size so anything odd shows up clearly.  No excessively large
files but some massive recursion inside !Scrap.

I must have had a senior moment in the middle of last week and
decided that the 3rd SD window referring to 'Scrap' meant
!Scrap.etc when it just means a place where files can be held
until they are ditched: not quite the same thing.  Anyway, I had
dragged my Boot:Resources.!Scrap.ScrapDirs.IDdisabled into that
window and that had started the rot because one of the
directories I back up is !Boot.  I really don't need to save the
old files anyway so that window should have been left blank.

This /is/ reproducible if you set that scrap location and then
backup !Boot (but don't blame me if it mucks up your !Scrap).

I have now found a posting to this list by David on this very
topic which warns of problems: Message-ID:
<k2wVL8CxHGzFFwwJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007

Silly me!  I'm sorry to have wasted your time but it may be a
useful warning to other users.


Brian.

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Brian Carroll, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK  bric at f2s dot com
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