Recent content by pokeefe0001

Windows will sometimes display Chinese characters when it interprets UTF-8 data as UTF-16. Maybe the code displaying a size greater than 9.99 TB used the wrong code page. If so, there's nothing we can do; MS will have to fix it. But I suspect there are higher priority bugs right now.

I use just an admin account (local - I never use my MS account). Mostly out of laziness, but it's a rare day I don't do a couple things that raise the UAC prompt. If I did set up a general user account I would be repeatedly frustrated and stop using it. I know having separate accounts would...

Interesting. Someone on the Macrium Reflect forum reported something very similar - strange characters appearing in a Reflect display. A reinstall of Reflect fixed his problem. Reinstalling Windows would be a bigger deal ... and there's no reason to assume the problems are the same. I can't...

I thought that might be what it did when you mentioned "incremental backup". I'm not creating backups; I'm creating a working copy of the original source ... including additions, changes, and deletions. Having incremental changes in a separate folder would do me no good.

Thanks, but I have it working now. The /DST and /XO fixed my problem. I didn't walk through your script so I'm not sure if understand what you're doing, but it looks more complex than I need.

I know nothing about git so I may be way off base here, but I don't think it makes much sense for my purposes. I have a set of data and config files for an application running on a couple laptops. The laptops are off-line except for the rare occasions when I take them home to apply maintenance...

Hmm. I hadn't noticed the DST switch. It isn't very well documented. I'll play with it to see how it works. I think git is far beyond my needs. These are just some simple scripts used to get data to and from several off-line laptops.

I think the DCOPY parm controls Robocopy's detection of directory changes, and the directory comparisons seemed fine. I ran a WinMerge comparison again (comparing full content) - this time between a source from a Macrium Reflect backup of the destination (taken this morning) and the source on...

I use Robocopy to create a backup of a folder structure - 3469 files in 285 folders. I run it every few months. A handful of files get added or deleted but it's basically very static. The command (in a script) is "RoboCopy %Source% %Dest% /mir /dcopy:T". Since there are few changes...

I discovered that SMTP was not enabled in the email I account. I requested it be enabled, but it still didn't work. Then I remembered reading that the Thunderbird account definitions using for connections using OAuth2 have to be deleted and reentered when some parts of the definition are...

That's what I have (except for the User Name, of course). I'll keep digging.

In the past I've had no problem setting up email server accounts in Thunderbird - I have 5 active connections right now - but I'm having trouble connecting to Office365.com. According to this web page I should use Protocol Server name Port Encryption method POP3...

I was very confused about this at first, but I knew those could not be the only accounts supported so I tried clicking on what looks like a header: "Authenticator". That brought up a display that lest you enter stuff for an arbitrary account. I think it would have been much more obvious if...

Bingo! No "almost" in mine, but I clicked on what was apparently empty space and was signed out. Sheesh! Sorry to waste your time.

You might be right, but I don't have a "Start" there: Wouldn't that mean I'd fall back on the "Default" settings? (That's a guess. I really don't know how that works.)