re: clean-up after OE tantrum delete
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Keith Stanier wrote:
|Do you have a CD burner? You could burn all your music to CD's.
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Yup. If you don't have all your stuff backed up to EXTERNAL media,
you're just asking for trouble.
A CD-R will typically hold 600 - 700MB.
There are also CD-Rs available up to 900MB.
One bad thing about optical media
is that the ISO 9660 filesystem limits filenames to 128 characters
(64 characters if you use any Unicode characters),
so, very long names get chopped short.
(...and if you have any spaces, commas, or periods[1] in the filename
each of those uses 3 characters:
e.g. below the level visible to you, a space is represented as %22.)
Saving Favorites is usually where the long names stuff causes problems.
Another bad thing about optical media is that it is fragile.
It doesn't like being stored in sunlight--especially not direct sunlight.
It doesn't like to be written on with Sharpies.
...and, of course, there's the scratches thing.
|Or you could get some USB Flash drives and copy all [your] files onto them.
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Great idea. I've seen them for $2/GB (1GB is 1000MB)
...and with USB devices there's no problem with filenames.
If you're creating new files very often, having 2 devices
and doing "rotating" backups every so often is a good plan.
|Make sure you get flash drives that are Win98 compatible
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Yup. Read the packaging BEFORE handing over your cash.
|even then you will need to install drivers for these drives.
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Actually, **has proper drivers** is what "Win98 compatible" means.
No other operating system since Win9x has this problem.
(Actually, Linux--first available in 1991--has NEVER had this problem.)
...and W98 (or any other OS) poses NO other restrictions on a thumbdrive.
|I can give you a link to [universal] drivers
|but I can't get these to work on my Win98SE.
|I'm sure that gewg will make a comment about these universal drivers
|when he reads this.
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Yup. Keith is the *only* one I've ever heard make this complaint.
Just make sure the packaging mentions Windows 98
and comes with media containing the W98 driver or shows a Web link to that.
|Also check the storage size of these drives.
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Any size USB drive should work just fine.
|All mine are 2GB or less as the larger ones aren't generally compatible.
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There is no reason why this should be so.
[1] ...beyond the period before the file extension (.mpg, .bmp, .exe, etc.).
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