OK so first time user of Norton Ghost. My Documents folder was huge so rather than doing a complete recovery point I decided to just use The File and Folder option to just backup everything in My Documents.
My Hard Drive failed yesterday with My Documents so I want to recover it all.
So I went to the "Recover My Files" option and I was just hoping to Right click on the top level folder and select Recover but it only seems to provide the Recover option on individual files.
Looking on the Forums now I can see that the general advice is to stay clear of the File and Folders backup option because of these difficulties.
I'm just hoping there is a solution to recover everything as there is so many folders to do this individually would be soul destroying. I can see all my folder structure there in the Recover My Files screen I just can't belive Norton have implemented this without a way to recover everything.
Can anyone help?
OK so first time user of Norton Ghost. My Documents folder was huge so rather than doing a complete recovery point I decided to just use The File and Folder option to just backup everything in My Documents.
My Hard Drive failed yesterday with My Documents so I want to recover it all.
So I went to the "Recover My Files" option and I was just hoping to Right click on the top level folder and select Recover but it only seems to provide the Recover option on individual files.
Looking on the Forums now I can see that the general advice is to stay clear of the File and Folders backup option because of these difficulties.
I'm just hoping there is a solution to recover everything as there is so many folders to do this individually would be soul destroying. I can see all my folder structure there in the Recover My Files screen I just can't belive Norton have implemented this without a way to recover everything.
Can anyone help?
It doesnt even let me select a folder to recover just the underlying files. So it looks like you have to go into every folder select everything and recover. Then into the next folder etc It lets you do searchs but again only files can be recovered not folders. It has a limit of displaying 10,001 files so I just can't do a total wildcard search and then select all and recover
When I try to go into Advanced search and include a particular folder it comes up with an error "The path K:.... is not on a local drive. You must use local drives only" which is fine but the K drive is the one that has failed and I am trying to recover the backup files for. You can see the drive in the simple search and broswe the folder structure but advanced search is being silly cause that drive currently does not exist.
If someone can confirm to me that Symantec System Recovery can use the Ghost 15 "File and folder" backup files and allows for an easy way to recover all my files then I'll buy it.
dickevans wrote:
>>>I haven't tried file/folder backup and recovery with that program but I expect it to do better than Ghost.
I'll bet it is exactly the same. It just seems to be a patched in mess to me.
SeanKelly wrote:
It doesnt even let me select a folder to recover just the underlying files. So it looks like you have to go into every folder select everything and recover. Then into the next folder etc It lets you do searchs but again only files can be recovered not folders. It has a limit of displaying 10,001 files so I just can't do a total wildcard search and then select all and recover
When I try to go into Advanced search and include a particular folder it comes up with an error "The path K:.... is not on a local drive. You must use local drives only" which is fine but the K drive is the one that has failed and I am trying to recover the backup files for. You can see the drive in the simple search and broswe the folder structure but advanced search is being silly cause that drive currently does not exist.
If someone can confirm to me that Symantec System Recovery can use the Ghost 15 "File and folder" backup files and allows for an easy way to recover all my files then I'll buy it.
My guess is that there are no updates to F&F backup. There is a trial available if you want to try it out. I've never tried it, but can you recover Files and Folders from the SRD? Maybe it would function different.