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Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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Name: Janset
Date: January 26, 2007 at 11:20:14 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing
OS: WinME
CPU/Ram: IntrlPen4, 1028MBRam
Model/Manufacturer: OEM

Comment:

Hi All.
The other day I was doing a bit of tidyup of the computer and noticed that on the slave drive some of the folders had been duplicated.
Has anyone any ideas as to how this could have happened?
Regards
Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia

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Response Number 1

Name: jboy
Date: January 26, 2007 at 16:53:24 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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Baed on that vague description... I'm afraid not - other than the restore & recycled folders, which are to be expected
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter

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Response Number 2

Name: Janset
Date: January 26, 2007 at 23:15:11 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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Hi jboy.
I know that it a vague question but unfortunately it appeared as a result of many things that I had been doing to the computer at the time so I can not be more specific.
The question was really a shot in the dark hoping that someone may have been able to say "these things happen when..... are done".
Usually I try and do only one or two thing at a time only just so that I can keep tabs on the consequences, but this time I failed in that regards.
Cheers

Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia

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Response Number 3

Name: jboy
Date: January 27, 2007 at 00:45:04 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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All of that notwithstanding, merely saying "some" folders (or files, as per your subject line) have been duplicated on another drive really isn't much to go on.
Specifics, such as the names of the folders/files in question might prove helpful (or not, as the case may be)
If it'll make you feel better, sure: "these [peculiar things] happen when [peculiar things] are done" - that's about all that can be said without actual information.
If you want to go by the numbers, then 'user error' is the typical culprit ; )

"why ask why?" might be a better question
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter

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Response Number 4

Name: Derek
Date: January 27, 2007 at 18:49:38 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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If the repeated names are adjacent in the same folder then they are not identical at all. If this is the case make sure you are set to show all files extensions, which will highlight the difference.
DerekW

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Response Number 5

Name: jboy
Date: January 27, 2007 at 19:30:32 Pacific
Subject: Duplicate files appearing

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... I found some stuff in the basement, while tidying up
How did it get there and what should I do with it?
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter

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