Data loss while restoring .tgz archives

[edscott wilson garcia]

El mar, 25-03-2003 a las 16:20, Olivier Fourdan escribió:
> Thomas,
> 
> Actually, I did not say that xftree was responsible for your data loss.
> 
> I was just saying that using a file manager to copy sensible data is a
> bad idea, generally speaking.
> 
> IMO, the only reliable tool for copying sensible data is "cp"

cpio is good too  :-)

Edscott

> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:43, Thomas Schönhoff wrote:
> > Hello Olivier,
> > thanks for your answer!
> > Hm, there was so much confidence in XFCE that I were not thinkin' about 
> > this issue too much before. Nevertheless, fortunately I found this files 
> > too at another place, so the consequences of loss are small :-)
> > Finally I was successful in using GMC to copy the data!
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Thomas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >Thomas,
> > >
> > >If that's important data, you shouldn't use a filemanager at all...
> > >
> > >Why not mounting the device and use cp ?
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Olivier.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
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