[SEL] Member's Sites on Oldengine.org - IMPORTANT

Listerdiesel listerdiesel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 04:06:07 PST 2006


On 2/19/06, Paul Pavlinovich <pjp at steamengine.com.au> wrote:
> Any chance they are running source code control such as source safe or cvs on the server? It will make similar files and
> it will create duplicates. Anyone on the list know if the server is unix (linux?) or windows based?
>
> Speaking from a systems perspective - until you hear back from the techie I would not do anything. If the duplicate
> files you are looking at are just symbolic or hard links to your files then you are (or risk) deleting your real files.
>
> A good prerogative is never attempt to fix something you do not fully understand yourself - you may be doing more harm
> than good. Of course you may also stumble across the right answer too!
>
> Paul
>

I don't know Paul, that's the worst part of the problem!

I have only alerted the rest of the users and cleaned my own section
out. I have full backups here so I don't mind being 'Guinea Pig' :-))

Peter
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Peter A Forbes
Email: listerdiesel at gmail.com
Web: www.oldengine.org/members/diesel




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