Recent content by AK6DN

Exactly.

My experience is that Idrive will backup any files that meet its selection criteria. Meaning the file is in a folder location that is enabled to be scanned for backup, and the file name does not match any exclusion pattern that might be setup. So you could have the same file with the same name...

Huh? How can't Linux not download from the internet? Or use familiar apps to Windows? I have Thunderbird email and Firefox web browser on Windows 7, 10, And 11. And on my Linux laptop. They all behave the same. I sync my settings for Firefox between Windows 7, 10, 11, and Linux. Works just...

Well more likely I'll stick with Windows 10 forever, either on my real 128GB 16core Xeon desktop, or I'll convert it to Linux and run Windows 10 in a Virtualbox VM. I have a Virtualbox VM with Windows 11 in it, and I see exactly zero benefit to switching to Win11 vs Win10. YMMV. Hold on, be...

I am on Windows 10 and plan to stay there for the indefinite future. Even if I have to pay some hush money to Microsoft to keep Windows 10. Then when Microsoft finally sees there is still no mass movement to Win 11, they will magically remove the TPM2.0 and processor restrictions for running Win 11, allowing...

See: Change Name of User Profile Folder in Windows 11 Tutorial Requires some hacking tho using cmd line admin tools and the registry editor

Maybe because the old links refer to http:// protocol and windows downloads now not just prefer but require https:// protocol?

Have you looked at Computer Management / Event Viewer / Custom Views / Administrative Events ? It is a summary of any Error or Warning events that have been logged thru the system logger. Or you can look in individual even logs under ... Computer Management / Event Viewer / Windows Logs /...

SSE4.2 was introduced with the Nehalem CoreI7 architecture back in 2008. So 15 years ago. Any processor since 2008 should be ok. Ref: SSE4 - Wikipedia Ref: List of Intel Core i7 processors - Wikipedia

You did a 'clean install'. Why? Was something not working, or you were just bored? Me, I would throw that clean install away and do a full restore from your last Macrium backup that you trust. Then if your system is still not behaving, do a Windows 'Repair Install' to reinstall just Windows and...

After adding the new folders / files, did you click on the Change... button and make sure the new items you added have checks next to them so they are selected for backup? See item #3 in the image below from the IDrive online help document. See this: FAQs on online backup via IDrive® Windows...

IDK but in my case I just went ahead and deleted the errant symbolic links so I could get a clean status 'success' IDrive backup. I didn't want to have it fail every time and then have to go check and see oh yeah it is that same failure again.

My IDrive backed up some .iso files no problem. Have you looked in the suspect directories with hidden files enabled to display? The only files I have seen IDrive have issue with were those with permission/ownership issues not allowing me access (I run IDrive as my userid) or those files that...

Yes the web interface online will tell you the number of backed up items in each folder. When I did my first backup I had a similar issue. IDrive did not like cygwin symbolic link files of which I had a couple of source code folders that contained some of these. So it reported a failure on...

Try opening the IDrive APP and select 'backup now' to force it to run a backup. It will scan over all the files looking for any new or changed or missing files from the backup set to transfer. IIRC it will tell you if it finds files it can't process for some reason.