Uninstalling -- Rescue & recovery

[Tilyou]

I deleted "Rescue and Recovery" okay (I didn't like it) but I still have a recovery folder on an external drive that contains a backup of my hard drive.

The recovery folder is over 40 GIGs! and worse: I can't delete it!

Any tips?

I've tried running

attrib -h -s -r /s from a Windows XP command line (DOS emulator) window; and tried renaming the folder "temp" which caused a utility called cleanup to mark all the files for deletion on the next rebooting.

But none of that worked.

- Charles

tilyou1@aol.com

[GomJabbar]

Try the method posted in the following thread for deleting problem files and folders.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=13247

[Tilyou]

Try the method posted in the following thread for deleting problem files and folders. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=13247

Thanks for the suggestion -- but there's a glitch.

Recue & Recovery created two secure folders: one on installation ("R" on my hard drive") and other on an external USB 2.0 hard drive when I did an actual backup.

After I uninstalled R&R deleting "R" was easy -- but I still can't delete the folder on the external hard drive. Your suggestion requires "safe mode" and in safe mode I can't get access to the USB drive.

Is there an alternate method to remove the folder?

Or a way to access external USB 2.0 drives in safe mode, so I can use the trick you mentioned.

Thanks!

- Charles

tilyou1@aol.com

[Zeitgeist]

Install R&R again, delete all backups using R&R, uninstall R&R.

[Tilyou]

Install R&R again, delete all backups using R&R, uninstall R&R.

Many thanks! I shoulda thought of that.

The road to the fix was not straight. At first the reinstalled R&R didn't recognize the old backup on the USB drive, and after fussing around (configuring R&R to back up to that drive, rebooting, changing the name of the old backup folder to the name I gave for new backups, starting a backup, then canceling) the old backup folder just disappeared! Fine with me.

The punchline is I'm using R&R now, since I finally paid enough attention to see I can exclude directories with MP3 files (for example) which don't compress and just make the backup folder huge.

I still think the security feature is a nuisance. It ought to be deleteable without such dancing.

Charles