Moose,
Very good points. I keep my backup HD unplugged from USB ports as well as
power, when it is not in use for backup.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT - Maxwell Smart
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>> Having read the consensus reached by C.H., Moose, Joel, Candace, Ken, and
>> forgive me if I forget to mention anyone else ... I'm studying how to get
>> rid of SmartWare.
>
> Control Panel=>Add/Remove Programs=>Remove SmartWare
>
>> It's even more clumsy than agent 86: I deleted all the folders into which
>> some 10 files were not backed up, but it insisted on that there was one,
>> yes only one, which I had deleted but remained impossible to back up.
>>
>
> Are you messing around in the root and/or system folders? There are
> Windoze work files there which shouldn't be backed up anyway, and will
> be automagically recreated by Windoze if you delete them.
>
>> I still don't know how to uninstall Mr. Don Adams,
>
> See above.
>
>> but I'm being warned that I will loose these nice features of my WD
>> functionality:
>>
>> - The capacity gauge is illuminated only if the WD SmartWare software is
>> installed and
>> running on your computer.
>>
>> - The power button only works if SmartWare is installed.
>> Note: After you power off the drive using the power button, if it remains
>> connected to your computer, you need to press the power button again to
>> turn it
>> back on. If you disconnected the drive after turning it off, when you
>> reconnect it
>> to your booted-up computer, it automatically powers on.
>>
>> I can hardly understand what the note means :-(
>>
>
> 1. You will lose a useless gauge and another useless start-up item that
> just uses up desktop space and memory.
>
> 2. You don't need a power button. Especially as it isn't a real power
> button at all if it only works when the computer is running and the
> driver installed,. One key point of an external back-up is to truly
> isolate data from the computer OS, viruses, etc. If the HD is "off", but
> internally powered up enough to respond to a soft button, someone could
> write a virus (there are a LOT of WD drives out there to tempt them)
> that activates the HD via the driver and accesses the data.
>
> 3. The back-up disk should be disconnected and kept apart from the
> computer when not in actual use, anyway. That way, loss of computer
> doesn't include data and programs.
>
> If you really want to know what's going on with your HDs, install
> HDTune, a great free utility. If you just want to know how full it is,
> right click in Explorer and select Properties. You get detailed numbers
> and a pie chart.
>
> Moose
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