XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:22:45 -0500, Hank Rogers wrote :   
      
      
   > I'm surprised you didn't know this!   
      
   EDIT: (There's a plan for backing up data in the 2nd half of this missive.)   
      
   It's no longer shocking what Alan Baker will insist can't be, when everyone   
   but Alan Baker knows it (see a perfect example in my own header above).   
      
   Alan Baker has owned a bimmer for years and yet disputed what they're   
   commonly called in technical circles; and Alan Baker claims to 'teach   
   racing' and yet clearly has never studied the physics involved in   
   navigating differently various basic curves.   
      
   Alan Baker insists Apple has never done wrong (simply because, to him,   
   paying a half a billion dollars so that they don't have to admit guilt is   
   proof that Apple cannot do wrong because Apple has too much money to do   
   so).   
      
   Even the fact that Apple was charged with crimes and that Apple paid the   
   French prosecutor for those crimes, means, to Alan, that it never happened.   
      
   Moving on ... we're here to improve our technical knowledge, where I have   
   (what I think is) sage advice for how to plan on backing up all your data.   
      
   As for the technical aspect of backing up data, I've been doing that for as   
   many decades as the rest of you have, starting back in the 1960's on   
   magtape and punched cards (sorry, I never learned how to use punched tape).   
      
   It's my opinion, based on experience, that on Linux/Windows, you have to   
   plan for your data backup the day you set up your system. This is why I   
   have a directory for data on Windows that exactly mirrors the app dir.   
    installers: C:\software\editors\text\gvim\.   
    apps: C:\apps\editors\text\gvim\.   
    Taskbar menu: menu > editors > text > gvim.lnk   
    data:  C:\data\editors\text\gvim\. (e.g., tmp files & settings)   
      
   Your plan banks on being able to set the data directory of each program at   
   the time you install that program. Fat chance getting Adobe products to   
   respect that plan; but there are programs out there which allow you to set   
   the data directory (e.g., OSMAnd~ on Android allows you a map directory).   
      
   However, executing the strategic plan of backing up data is sort of like   
   what happens during war the moment there is contact with the enemy.   
      
   The enemy gets a vote.   
   Hence, no plan survives intact after contact with the enemy.   
      
   It's the same with backing up your data.   
      
   The only plan that works all the time is to plan how you're going to back   
   up your system the day you set up that system - and then - you modify that   
   plan upon contact with each app or program.   
      
   Consider the program installation your first contact with the enemy.   
   And change the plan accordingly - since the program gets a vote.   
   --   
   I never use plurals in dirs or files but added it here for readability.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)