Disaster, or....?

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

I made a big mistake today, I made a backup of my WDP to the original USB-stick that contains the original WDP 2015.  Does this mean I have lost something, or is the USB-stick still usable as before?

Regards,
Per.

PS:  I actually thought the USB-stick was "read-only"...?

[Markus Herzog]

Hi Per,

As long as you did not delete anything: no problem.

Only the files and folders we put on the stick are read only.

Indeed you can use the stick for the backup. But for me I would not suggest this, just to separate license stick and backup data.

Regards
Markus

[Stefan Lersch]

Hello Per,

as Markus said, you cannot delete WDP on the stick, only your own data. So the disaster is not so big. :-)

[Per Olsen]

Hello both.

OK, thank you.  No, I did not put the backup there on purpose, I had just forgotten to exchange the USB-stick with the one that I do use for backup.

Regards,
Per.

[Stefan Lersch]

Hi Per,

just as a warning for the future. I asked Markus about the details. Actually you can delete the WDP data. But if you try to do so by mistake you will get a warning. If you ignore the warning the WDP files are lost.

I'm sure you won't do so but I thought this is an important information for other users, too.

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

OK.  It was a pure accident.  And I only made a backup from within the WDP.  I got no warnings, but I am not sure the backup-routine will show any warnings, as it is, in fact, meant to over-Write any existing files..?

Anyway, I will be more careful in the future, og course....

Best regards,
Per.

[Stefan Lersch]

Hello Per,

we are talking about two different things. You mean the backup (= your data) and I WDP itself (the program). You can't overwrite any WDP files with a backup because they have different names. The only way to destroy WDP on the stick is to access the stick in the explorer, select the files and delete them. You might say nobody does this. Well, some do.

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

All OK...!

Per.

[Per Olsen]

Hello again.

Today I wanted to install WDP in my second computer, for ease of work.  The installation started, but after a while I got the message that a file or folder is damaged and cannot be read.  So I am not able to install it again.  So surely something has been changed on the USB stick when I accidentally did a backup to it.

What can I do ?

Regards,
Per.

[Markus Herzog]

Hello Per,

please make a screenshot of the sticks content within the Explorer for the sticks main directory and the directory Installer\Setup_deutsch.

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

Here they are.

Regards,
Per.

[Markus Herzog]

Hi Per,

for me the content seems to be fine. Only additional files caused by the backup, but not missing original files. I´ll have to talk to Dr. Peterlin tomorrow.

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

OK, thank you.

Regards,
Per.

[Stefan Lersch]

Hi Per,

in the meantime try to install again as administrator. Look for the setup.exe on the stick, make a right click on it an select "Run as Administor".

[Per Olsen]

Hi.

In fact, I did install as administrator.  I know this from before......

Regards,
Per.