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From: "Brian Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question on Restoring a TMG 7 Backup
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:16:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20080426202412.039295a0@mail.earthlink.net>


A short note to Thank everyone who responded to my message
especially Jim Byram and Dennis Bieber. I wanted to share the solution with
everyone in case others are having similar problems. The secret here was to
completely move all of my data out of my user account to C:\The Master
Genealogist V7 Once I created this folder it restored without problem.
Obviously this was some kind of permissions problem although I am not quite
sure why. I had administrator rights on both the account that the file was
backed up on and the account that it was backed up to. Some protocol was
obviously changed between version 6 & 7. It works now so I am extremely
happy.

Thanks again,

Brian



-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Dennis Lee Bieber
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:38 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question on Restoring a TMG 7 Backup

On or about 4/26/2008 06:19 PM a carrier pigeon from Brian Smith delivered:

>
>Hi:
>
> Since upgrading to TMG-7 in January I have been unable to restore
>a backup. To give you some background, I use my TMG file on two
>separate PC's, one at work, one at home and I am constantly backing up
>and then restoring to the other machine (at least I used to). When I
>attempt to restore the file from my machine at work to my machine at
>home I get the error message "Invalid path for exhibits "C:\Documents
>and Settings\Brian\My Documents\The Master Genealogist v7\exhibits".
>You are trying to restore data to a folder reserved for a different
>USER on this system. Please select a folder in another location." No
>matter what other location I select, I get the same response. There are
>4 different family members on the home PC and they all have
>administrator rights. Even though the error would indicate that I am
>trying to restore to a different user's folder, I am in my own. Both
>machines are running Windows XP and I am an admin on both. I have also
recently upgraded to TMG 7.1.
>

My recommendation is that you move the exhibits completely OUT of
the "documents and settings" path...

If you only have one partition on each machine, I'd suggest
creating a "C:\TMG Exhibits\" directory; move the exhibits on one of the
machines to the new location. Run VFI including the option to search for
external files -- redirect those missing exhibits to the new location. THEN
create your backup.

Personally -- I'd also suggest creating an Admin account with a
password, and then downgrading ALL user accounts to plain user. Not even MY
admin account can directly modify files in parts of my User account --
since, as the user, I set the file security to prevent admin access. Admin
accounts should be reserved for use ONLY in modifying the operational
parameters of the computer (install/remove software, create/remove accounts,
running complete system backup software, defragmentation, etc.) By running
in a limited user account you protect the system for inadvertant actions
-- such as clicking on trojan attachments -- as they won't have privilege to
install; at most they can only corrupt the user account.

I wouldn't expect a simple ZIP/UNZIP process to encounter the next
situation, but... Under Windows, a user NAME is not the criteria the
security system uses -- each user account is created with a pseudo-random
number. In some situations, an account can become so damaged that one may
delete the account, and create a new account with the same user name -- but
the new account has NO access to the files created in the previous account
as the account number used by the security system is different. Possibly
something in the backup/restore IS recording user account number, and
objecting because they are NOT completely identical.


Also note: the security control in XP Home is much less
sophisticated than that in XP Pro. In XP Pro one can, using the command line
tools, create new classes of users (a common one is "power user") and set
files to permit access only to certain groups of users, or explicitly list a
single user -- and set controls for read, write, execute, modify, etc.

--
Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

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