You're all talking rubbish...
By presuming on someone making an honest observation who posted his
thoughts to this group.
Then by trying to make yourselves look more knowledgeable at his expense by
clutching at the straws of your own barely remembered experiences....
The facts are that if a drive on reaching the Window's pre-defined
low-level of free space, will automatically start the "Disk Clean-up
Manager" [cleanmgr.exe] with the drive in question pre-selected.
The accusations (for that's what they were) that the OP instigated and then
had to change the default drive from [C:] to his removable drive were both
premature and wrong.
==
Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"Guess Who" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "N. Miller" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:04:53 -0600, Guess Who wrote:
>>
>>> "(PeteCresswell)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>> Had a USB drive containing my backup system images connected.
>>>>
>>>> Was deleting some old images preparatory to adding some new ones.
>>>>
>>>> Somewhere along the line Windows' "Disc Cleanup" dialog popped.
>>>>
>>>> In a moment of weakness, I hit "Ok"....
>>>>
>>>> Sheesh!!!!
>>>>
>>>> It deleted a whole series of backup files as "Obsolete" or some
>>>> such.
>>>>
>>>> I'm back in business from other backup sources, but geeze! Watch
>>>> out for "Disc Cleanup".
>>
>>> Pete,
>>>
>>> Somehow, I'm not buying your story.
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, when Disc Cleanup starts, it defaults to
>>> cleaning
>>> up the 'C drive' if you simply hit OK. For any other drive, you have
>>> to
>>> click the drop arrow to select a different drive.
>>>
>>> Therefore, even in your "moment of weakness", it should not have
>>> affected a
>>> USB drive.
>>>
>>> Besides, there is nothing to beware of regarding Disc Cleanup. You
>>> were the
>>> problem by hitting OK without realizing what you had done. YOU need to
>>> be
>>> more careful.
>>
>> OP states target drive of a copy was full.
>
> Sorry, I do not see where he states that.
>
>> I suspect "Disk Cleanup" would
>> pop up and offer to clean target drive in that case (never had that
>> happen,
>> I think; never "okayed" the cleanup if I did have it happen). What would
>> have been preselected for deletion? I don't rightly know. "Recycle" bin
>> is
>> the only option for "Disk Cleanup" on the two USB drives I just checked.
>
> What exactly happened is still a question. Your response if full of "I
> suspect" and "What would have been" --> presumptions.
>
>> --
>> Norman
>> ~Oh Lord, why have you come
>> ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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