Sorry that its off topic, but when you CUT something from one folder to another is ther a risk of losing all of the files when they have been deleted but not written yet? Its an argument between me and my mum - I say its fine, she says its too dangerous to use!
Wont just moving your FS9 folder mess up the registry?
Dan
She's wrong, your right. Basically a move is a copy followed by a delete. If the move doesn't complete the original file will still be there. The problem is if your moving lots of files and it breaks in the middle, you will half one place and half another, but it's not a big problem.
As for the registry it won't cause many problems if you follow this method.
Copy the whole FS9 directory to a temporary location well away from the originals. Then uninstall the original install. Then install it again to a new location on the 80 gig drive. Then copy all the data from temporary store over the top of the new install. Then re-install, or repair install, over the top of the new and just copied over install (if that makes sense?). This is to make sure any files with location pointers are then updated to the new location.
If you really felt skillfull a trip through your registry might be a good idea to check the settings, but probably not needed.
Regards
Paul
PS When I said your right your mums wrong I was thinking moving to a different drive. If you are actually moving to the same drive then the TOC is edited and if something goes wrong during that, a very rare posibility, you can in theory loose your entire contents. Or not loose them, more not be able to access them. So if your moving to another place on the same hard disk it's just the pointer thats changed not the actual files location.
The files are never stored in memory, just either the pointer is changed to it's new location or it's copied to another drive and then it's original pointer deleted. In lamens terms anyway.
Regards
Paul
by Delta_ » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:39 am 
