JeffNY Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I have 6.1.230 running on an MDD DP G4 with OS X 10.4.11. I use it to back up the computer to an external 1TB hard drive. I am trying to restore a single VirtualPC 7 file, a 5GB file called "Windows XP Home". No matter what I do it will not let me select the file! I do a search on "Windows XP Home" and it can't find the file. It I try and select the file manually Retrospect won't let me click on the right-arrow/triangle next to "Users" folder so I can navigate down to, and select, this file! Any suggestions here? Also, a couple months ago I tried to use 6.1.230 to restore a CD backup set that was created with an earlier version of Retrospect, but it keeps saying it can't read that format disk or some similar message...what good is "backup" software if a new version of Retrospect can't read a disk create with an earlier version?? Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffNY Posted December 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 oh, and when I try and "Mark files for Restore..." the left column where it lists all folders on a volume (I guess) the text is SO tiny I can't even read it! All you see are tiny black (folder?) and gray (files?) lines....you can't even read them to see what you are clicking on! But somehow I was just able to look inside the Users folder....but now everything in the folder has a check mark next to it! eeeeeee Been trying to restore this file all afternoon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffNY Posted December 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) Well, I finally restored the VirtualPC file called "Windows XP Home"...BUT Retrospect did not restore it correctly and in the "restore to" folder I don't have one file, but 76 files... StartMenu.plist BaseDrive.vhd Configuration.plist MainPackageFile-1 MainPackageFile ...And 71 "icon" files with names like "icon_0D012B9A.icns" Why did Retrospect so that? And not restore the file correctly? These appear to un-usable by VirtualPC... Jeff Edited December 21, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffNY Posted December 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 I am kinda missing the days when Dantz owned Retrospect...and there was better tech support. But as I plan my future backup options I may avoid Retrospect 8 and will look at other options (including online backup options). Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 I am kinda missing the days when Dantz owned Retrospect...and there was better tech support. Did you actually contact Roxio support? (This forum is just a user-to-user forum.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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