I don’t fucking know why I can’t eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don’t know who’s lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I didn’t say the Recycle Bin does any data compression, I said System Restore does data compression, and this is indeed a known fact.

        • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
          1·
          10 hours ago

          What? File History is a completely different system. System Restore makes occasional restoration points and is enabled by default, File History needs to be set up to use it. It’s disabled by default and Microsoft seems to be actively trying to hide it (try finding it in the Win11 settings screen; you won’t find it there) so people use OneDrive to back their stuff up instead.

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
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            8 hours ago

            Coming from Windows 2003, Vista Ultimate and 7 Ultimate era, Restore Previous Versions was enabled by default, and was a side service of System Restore…

            • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
              1·
              7 hours ago

              Right I get what you mean now. “File History” =/= “Previous Versions”. But “Previous Versions” has been entirely replaced since Win8, so not entirely relevant.

              It’s also completely unrelated to file deletions, because the VSS system both System Restore and Previous Versions use worked on the block-level, and as you already pointed out blocks aren’t written to when a file is deleted, it either gets copied over to the recycle bin or just marked as deleted, but neither affect the block contents (VSS works on a CoW principle, blocks are backed up only if written to, but live performance is basically unaffected by this unless you’re doing huge loads like big DB modifications or something.