I'm not quite sure where to post this, but I figured these two groups would
be a good start.
I had a very nasty surprise this morning (7/26/05).
I had to do a system restore to a restore point I made about a week ago. I
had some VPN software that was screwing up my network, and even an uninstall
didn't fix it.
After doing the system restore, I noticed that every C# source file (*.cs)
that I had modified since the date of the restore point (7/18/05) had
reverted back to a date of 7/18. Worse, all the changes made since then had
disappeared.
I thought to myself "There's no way this is related to the system restore. I
must have only thought about making the changes and not actually made them."
But the changes were far too extensive to have been made only in my head. I
un-did the system restore and, lo and behold, all my *.cs files had the
correct dates on them, and the changes made since 7/18 were back.
Curiously, *.vb files were unaffected.
So, a couple of questions:
1) What the heck? Why is the system restore mechanism messing with source
files? Isn't it supposed to ignore changes made to document files?
2) How do I prevent this from happening again?
Bryan Slatner
Venture Group Enterprises, Inc.
