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Redemption Backup - External HD
Name: jdennis789 Date: January 15, 2007 at 16:25:07 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ / 1GB Product: Myself
Comment:
I just bought a HybriDrive from Fry's to backup data and it came with software that allows you to do that but the software doesn't allow you to remove anything from the drive. When you go into my computer, through this route, you can go into the folder where all of the files are. Well, the problem is this...all these files are in a RIM format (.RIM extension) can anyone give me advice on how I am to be able to determine which files are what? Oh, and this redemption program has it's own naming scheme, so this is why I don't know which files are what.
Name: per Date: January 15, 2007 at 16:31:14 Pacific
Reply:
This may help although they don't recocnize rim files. http://filext.com/
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Response Number 2
Name: jdennis789 Date: January 15, 2007 at 16:34:31 Pacific
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No, that doesn't help...it doesn't recognize rim files.
http://www.hyperlinkz.com/
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: January 15, 2007 at 17:10:04 Pacific
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You don't need to recognize or view rim files. Your recovery software is responsible for that.
For an example some backups will make two files, control.dat and data.dat. Control tracks the data and data is just raw storage. You can not view the contents of either as files but you can go into the backup software and its reads tell you what was backed up
Does your free software show you the backups and the files contained?
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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Response Number 4
Name: jdennis789 Date: January 15, 2007 at 19:45:14 Pacific
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Yeah, but it doesn't let me remove them...I've got redundant data on the HD. Thank you for your response.
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