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[News] Windows 'Easy Transfer' Fails the Test

Windows Easy Transfer is all WET 

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| Because it's trash. I used the advanced options to select everything
| I wanted to transfer, and immediately noticed that I couldn't transfer
| stuff from one folder into a different one. No biggie; I'd move it
| after the transfer. After about two hours of transfer time over my
| network, the process declared its success and I took the old PC offline.
| 
| After I'd moved the gaming PC to my desk, I fired it up and installed 
| a few other drivers (noting with a great deal of disappointment that
| HP doesn't support my 6-month-old PhotoSmart 475 and wants me to buy
| a new photo printer--shame on you HP!) and fired up Outlook to see
| how WET did moving my email and accounts.
| 
| That's when the fun started.
| 
| Outlook 2007 told me something about not having a folder to store
| email. When I tried to point it to my old PST that made the
| transfer (but not, apparently, the migration), it gave me a 
| database error and closed.
| 
| No worries, I'd just create a new account and import the PST
| manually. That didn't work either, mainly because Outlook
| refused to open ever again. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| I'm banging this column out in WordPad because I can't use Word; I'm
| running a "repair" of Office 2007 hoping beyond hope that it somehow
| gets Outlook to work.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2111364,00.asp


Related:

Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?

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| Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server, which
| among other features, will automatically back up files on all PCs in
| the home. But if the product uses the same kind of brain-dead backup
| built into Windows Vista, this is a product that will be dead on arrival.
| 
| The backup tool built into Windows Vista may be the worst utility
| every packed into an operating system. It doesn't allow you to back
| up individual files, folders or even file types. Instead, you have to
| back up every single file and folder of broad generic types. 
| 
| For example, if you want to back up a single picture, you have to back
| up every single graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC,
| including all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can
| be forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
| to back up a few family photos.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303

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