I do a similar thing, but nowhere near as efficient, but easier to maintain.
I have a Newton Folder on my Mac with everything I ever got for the Newt.
It's 174 megs.
I have things in the folder organized into categories (Utilities,
Communications, E-Texts).
This way, when I get something, it gets filed. I don't worry about keeping
track of when I move things on the Newt, or delete them from the Newt.
So, I went into the extras drawer. Selected All Icons and my card.
I then, one at a time, found the original on my Mac, copied it to a "Need to
reload" folder and deleted it from the newt.
Every 5 Packages or so I tried a backup again, until finally one backup
worked.
(After the first 4 times I gave up keeping track of which 5 I had just
deleted, so I don't know which package was corrupt.)
In any case, I then restored this backup to my new card, and re-installed
all the packages from the "Need to reload" folder.
Worked like a charm. Just as a test, I then did a new backup of the new
card. It also worked like a charm.
Kenny's method would certainly have been easier, for I could have just
deleted all the packages, and then reinstalled them. But mine worked as
well, and only took a little while longer. :-)
Loren
> From: "Kenny Song" <kensong@pc.jaring.my>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:18 +0800
> To: "NewtonTalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Subject: Re: NTLK Backups crashing when it gets to the card.
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000 Marco Mailand wrote:
>
> -----------
>> And you would very probably copy the errorneous package too. I had once
>> a corrupted Works package which finally stopped the backup as you've
>> described. Why don't you erase all packages and backup then? It will
>> force you to search for all original installer discs ;-)
> -----------
> I always have updated folders of all stores on my Mac for such incidence. They
> are labelled as Internal, 32 MB Card, 16 MB Card etc. with relevant installers
> in each folder. Makes replacing packages really convenient.
>
> Kenny Song
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