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here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/custom-drive-icon.htm
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so nobody noticed that I've blogged on this subject before? :oops:
writing for 7 years I forget what I've done... but it looks that most of you forget what you've read (or nobody's reading :))
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NIkos, I've reached the stage where I'm totally ambivalent to customising software, why ?, because I'm sick and tired of customising a application only to have the developers move the goal posts with every new iteration, e.g.

I wrote a scathing email to the firefox developers re' their continuous relocation of menu icons, one version setting is here, and in the next version it has been fvking moved. Who on earth thought up the buried update menu ?, If you want to frustrate a newby to the point of suicide of fratricide, ask them to manually update firefox. I also stated that I'm fed up with spending hours re-customising the layout with every new version after a clean install of the OS.
my point is this. I couldn't be bothered to learn the quirks of each and every single piece of software as I don't keep a journal for each application, I try to keep each application as original as possible so that when I do a clean install I'm "back in the groove" with the minimum of angst, frustration, fratricide, baby seal bashing and white whale killing emotions.

The day that developers make it possible to restore "EVERYTHING" at the click of a button, is the day that I spend and waste hours customising the UI.
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Backing up and restoring a Firefox “Profile” is fairly straightforward. Have a look at Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles and Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data.
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nikos wrote:...it looks that most of you forget what you've read (or nobody's reading)
If you live in a glass-house, learn to juggle snooker-balls outdoors.

I find it more worrying that in 2008 you wrote "If you hover the mouse pointer over a drive letter the drivebar will show its full device name on the statusbar but that's awkward and slow", and then 6 years later you wrote "the label appears (oddly) on the status bar as you hover the mouse over the drive icons".

In essence, both times you yourself as the author of this socialist merry-go-round fully admit that the system is weird, flawed, impractical and (like any marriage) deeply unsatisfying. If only someone had invented a sort of mechanism that could show some kind of custom floating text over the toolbar items themselves, wouldn't that be a neat invention? I mean, holy-tooltips Batman, that would be revolutionary if only such a thing existed! Our eyes wouldn't have to travel 1000 pixels South every time we wanted to see a drive label! We could stop the ritual sacrificing of children and everything. Think of the radical social change that would sweep the planet!

If only such a crazy thing actually existed and could be used by mere mortals. :cry:

Then again, certain developers might begin to think of common-sense uses for it... no doubt that would upset the delicate balance of the ecosystem, so maybe it's a good thing they can't get their greedy paws on such dangerous and subversive mechanisms.

It would be just like Gutenberg's Legacy all over again, and God knows that little adventure didn't leave the aristocracy with such a jolly taste in their religiously twisted little mouths - something like this might even put a permanent end to all those cocaine cravings you're always complaining about. :roll:

But, I suppose, like all imaginary things, it's really just inconceivable to think it would be in any way useful to us. :sad:
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Robert2 wrote:Backing up and restoring a Firefox “Profile” is fairly straightforward. Have a look at Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles and Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data.
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Thank you for your reply, and precise directions, much appreciated

Firefox Profile backup and restore, not exactly a user friendly procedure is it ?.

The average user doesn't know IT has to first, close the app, then locate and dive into sub folders then overwrite certain folders to "restore" a UI, shouldn't "backup settings" do exactly that, and then click "restore" to bring back the wasted hours ?, that's how the average user thinks.

I keep a backup/restore journal for the following apps,
Calibre: ( backup, once located, is totally useless, the most useless I've come across).
Foobar: (definitely a baby seal killer).
X2.
Firefox: (now I know how to restore the profile and not just the bookmarks, whoda thunk that backup/restore doesn't actually restore one's profile).
Mp3tag.

and then I lost interest, all other apps are stock standard, couldn't be bothered spending hours to customise the UI only to have to re-do everything after a clean install of the OS.
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To backup specific folders and/or files to a USB flash drive (including Firefox and Thunderbird “Profiles”), I use “DSYNCHRONIZE”, a freeware located at Dimio’s Tools.
Here is from that page:
DSynchronize is a stand-alone utility that let you periodically synchronize two or more folders on Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, LAN, USB Key, CD-DVD (with packet writing software) and FTP server.
It is also possible to specify the time and the day to schedule the synchronization to run, and to create some additional "filters" for other factors.
Real-Time sync is also supported.
The source and target folders are entered into DSYNCHRONIZE once and for all.
After that, the synchronization process can happen in real time or with a press on the “Synchronize” button…
This is as user-friendly as can be.
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