Finally, Dilwyn, thanks for the offer, but I don't need the advert
to be run
in QL today anymore. Please accept my apologies for any
inconvenience on
your part to date.
Regards all,
Stuart
I didn't manage to get time to do anything more than file it under 'QL
Today Vol 10 Issue 1' so no problem at all!
File delete recovery is so much harder on a QL system as the file
header is totally lost, so you have to find the file sections on a
disk. If anything has been written tot he disk since the file was
trashed, chances are it's gone, as any space used by deleted files
becomes immediately available to be used by the next file to be
written (and there's no copy in a Recycle folder or anything like
that), so it may well be gone quite quick and beyond any hope of
recovery. The QXL.WIN container is a different matter, it's basically
one (albeit large) Windows file, which can be undeleted pretty much
like any other Windows file.
Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and
recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and drvcheck or some such
names) don't know if those are still supplied and indeed if they work
on current systems.
The tediousness of keeping backups (e.g. copy QXL.WIN to a CD-RW on a
PC a couple of time a month) is so much easier than trying to undelete
files on a QL.
When you restore a QXL.WIN from a CD on some versions of Windows you
may need to untick its read-only attribute in Windows or QPC2 won't
manage to write to it.
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Dilwyn Jones
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