Windows 7 - breaking things that work

Posted By: Heywood_J | Feb 22nd @ 2:06 PM
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#Feb 22nd @ 2:06 PM
Heywood_J
Heywood_J
Trust me, I'm from the Internets
So I restore my system from a backup (Acronis True Image is a life saver).  But all my program settings in "AppData" are out of date.  No problem.  I have a daily  backup of those files.  So I just drag everything over from my external hard drive.  Vista tells me that there's already a folder called "Foobar" and I just tell it to copy everything anyway and I check the "Do this for the next xx conflicts" box.  Everything gets copied. Works great.

Then I try the same thing with Windows 7.  It silently creates a folder called "Foobar - Copy" and puts everything there.  Since the Foobar program expects it's files to be in a certain location -- not a folder called Foobar - Copy, this obviously creates a problem.  Not to mention the fact that it did the same thing to the other 27 folders that were copied.

Nice work screwing up one of the really useful features in Vista.
#Feb 23rd @ 2:29 AM
androidi
androidi
I've noticed some obscure scenarios get better in 7 but some common scenarios seem to be broken and since no critical (to my daily use) bugs were fixed between Vista beta and SP2 in Explorer I'm not having high hopes these will be fixed either:

Try moving a folder (not copy) to another partition/volume. Notice all the sub-folder modified dates have changed even though nothing was supposed to be modified inside the folders since it was a move. This breaks a ton of stuff I need so these days I have to use robocopy to copy folder first then delete. Back in XP/2003 days things were so much easier.

Then try undo that move. Now it really breaks.
#Feb 23rd @ 11:46 AM
Koogle
Koogle
I'm a Terminator - Astalavista, Vis7a!
this is why anyone not stupid enough to put themselves through using Fista/ Win7 uses a better copy file replacement like teracopiee.. not perfect but sure as hell beats the crap MS introduced, like badly designed noob dialog prompts for replacing files etc eeergh just so much retardation.

btw if you want MORE INFORMATION showing on a transfer.. shouldn't it remember that setting for the next time? ..even that window seems to have been designed with as little thought either :/

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