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If you enter any notes here, they will be saved
in the archive. Because searching these notes is possible, you
can input key words here to help find files and folders
later.
Links offer another method to access archived
objects. For example, if you create a link in a folder from where
you have put away a file, access to this file will remain in that
original place. Such a link is only a few bytes in size. To avoid
clutter, links are collected in link files.
If you link to a folder, you will be able to open it.
Archived objects therein will be listed and can be restored or
opened with their associated application.
Archive & Restore will extend the shell
of the Windows operating system that you can use with Explorer.
There are particular levels for archives and disks and
files and folders will be grouped by changeable archiving
periods.
With Archive & Restore, you can save files on
hard drives as well as disks. The program will manage
disks; if you want to open or restore a particular file,
you will be prompted to insert the appropriate disk.
Archive & Restore will then maintain the read-only
attribute of the original file, e.g. if you restore files from
a CD-ROM not all of them will be write protected because of
this.
Many archiving parameters are properties of the
archives themselves and need not be entered again and again.
For example, once you define for an archive, that files should
always be stored uncompressed and in an unchanged format.
If you try to archive a file that is already open
with another program, Archive & Restore lets you close
that file and try again or just skip it. If
you cancel, however, this will lead to a definite state:
all files will be archived or none at all -- the program will
not archive only one part while leaving the rest in its original
place.
The program will also offer some comfort during
restoring in that a file will already exist at the
destination.
Archive & Restore will not create
a single file, e.g. in ZIP format. For each archiving
process, one folder will be created and all files
stored separately therein -- optionally uncompressed, so you
will be able to access them directly in the archive
or through a local search engine.
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