Posted by MikeyMuchos on 10/04/06 19:15

Brian Cryer wrote:

[...]
> What is the full path to where you are saving them? because if its a
> temporary folder then its possible that some process is tidying them up for
> you.

E:\FileLib\Building\Heating\Boilers
is a typical example, where E: is a partition on the same drive as the
system partition.
Certainly no temp folders involved there. The disappearances have
happened in several similar locations, so it's not confined to one
directory.

> Do you have any applications/utilities running that try to "spring-clean"
> your disk for you? (i.e. which try to delete old files to recover disk
> space?)

I don't think anything like this is running by default and I don't use
such extreme clean-up features knowingly. I can find nothing in the
CCleaner config that indicates that this removal would occur.


> On a different note, do you backup your pc? If you have files that are
> disappearing, and you know they've disappeared then you should be able to
> recover them from your backup. I backup my pc using three external usb
> disks, which I rotate once a week - simple and convenient, but it means I
> can only go back two weeks ...

I do often back-up the system partition and the partition where I
install programs. I haven't been backing up storage areas with quite
the same frequency, but I'll have to start doing that now.

Thanks for the advice,
Mike

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