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to: Frank Haber
from: John Beckett
date: 2003-06-20 08:10:58
subject: Re: Explorer 2k on FAT

From: John Beckett 

Yes, I use ZTree over a network with mapped drive letters. I confess that
sometimes if I want to copy a complex folder structure (with all contents)
from one place to another, then I might just use Explorer. Pretty hard to
beat Explorer's interface for that. Mostly, however, it's ZTree.

I'm pretty certain that ZTree just uses the standard file API, so it should
not be any less reliable on NTFS or mapped drives, compared with FAT
partitions.

I have done some quite complex stuff with ZTree both locally and over a
network. I haven't crashed a recent version, but some of the earlier
versions were pretty easy to kill. However, I have never lost any data.
I've used ZTree on several NT4 and W2000 systems.

BTW just this week I discovered something about ZTree. I use Word for
editing .doc files, and Paintbrush for occasionally looking at a .bmp
bitmap. I thought you had to use the .bat files that are in ZTree's folder
for these operations. However, if you just delete the bat files, then ZTree
will do a standard open using the normal file association.

John


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news::
> >I normally use ZTree for file management
>
> I've found ZTree pretty bulletproof on 98/FAT.  Good to hear it's clean on
> 2000/NTFS. I'm chicken that way about losing thousands of files at one stroke
> (g).
>
> Do you use it over your LAN?  Mapped?
>

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