Where Did The SR Points Go?

Every once in a while I take a look at the Restore points that have been
made, usually before I make a new one. Today, for example, I took a look and
there were none--Because I have ME and Avast every once in a while I make my
own SR points so I know that there should have been some. Why did they
disappear?
MLD

MLD wrote:

Every once in a while I take a look at the Restore points that have
been made, usually before I make a new one. Today, for example, I
took a look and there were none--Because I have ME and Avast every
once in a while I make my own SR points so I know that there should
have been some. Why did they disappear?

Lots of possible reasons including using certain 3rd party system
"cleaners", allocating less space to the archive than required to store
copies of all the files that have been either changed or deleted since
your last checkpoint, having less than 300MB or so free space on the drive
containing the windows folder, changing the fixed partition layout -
either by adding another hard disk or repartitioning an existing drive.
--
Mike Maltby

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
MLD wrote:

Every once in a while I take a look at the Restore points that have
been made, usually before I make a new one. Today, for example, I
took a look and there were none--Because I have ME and Avast every
once in a while I make my own SR points so I know that there should
have been some. Why did they disappear?

Lots of possible reasons including using certain 3rd party system
"cleaners", allocating less space to the archive than required to store
copies of all the files that have been either changed or deleted since
your last checkpoint, having less than 300MB or so free space on the drive
containing the windows folder, changing the fixed partition layout -
either by adding another hard disk or repartitioning an existing drive.
--
Mike Maltby



Thanks for the response----I haven't used any cleaners, have about 600 MB
allotted to SR and GB's of free space. I'll take much more frequent looks
at the SR calendar and see if I can correlate when and if the new points
disappear.
Ques: Would SR points remain in the calendar infinitem if no further points
are made to chase them out (assuming that there is no space limitation)?
MLD

MLD wrote:

Thanks for the response----I haven't used any cleaners, have about
600 MB allotted to SR and GB's of free space. I'll take much more
frequent looks at the SR calendar and see if I can correlate when and
if the new points disappear.
Ques: Would SR points remain in the calendar infinitem if no further
points are made to chase them out (assuming that there is no space
limitation)? MLD

Yes and no, not that I would recommend that anyone use a checkpoint older
than a week or so. Win Me, unlike XP, does not automatically expire older
checkpoints, XP expires checkpoints after I think 31 days regardless of
available free space. so provided that the space required to store copies
of original and edited files is infinite, and such storage has yet to be
invented, then Win Me won't expire checkpoints. However since infinitely
large drives have yet to be invented a time will come when the space
required to store archived files will exceed the space allocated to the
archive and at the point the state manager will reset system restore and
flush the folder.
--
Mike Maltby

Mike wrote :-

... XP expires checkpoints after I think 31 days regardless of available
free space.

Mike, FWIW and FYI my XP Home box SR points go back to mid February with
some 70+ SR dates (some with multiple SR points). That's on an 80G HDD set
to 12%. and about 60% free space.

I find that with XP being so stable, I very rarely need to use SR, so just
let it 'look after itself'. Never had need to look that far back before g
The 'over one week' checkpoint disclaimer accepted of course.

Mart




"Mike M" wrote in message
...
MLD wrote:

Thanks for the response----I haven't used any cleaners, have about
600 MB allotted to SR and GB's of free space. I'll take much more
frequent looks at the SR calendar and see if I can correlate when and
if the new points disappear.
Ques: Would SR points remain in the calendar infinitem if no further
points are made to chase them out (assuming that there is no space
limitation)? MLD

Yes and no, not that I would recommend that anyone use a checkpoint older
than a week or so. Win Me, unlike XP, does not automatically expire older
checkpoints, XP expires checkpoints after I think 31 days regardless of
available free space. so provided that the space required to store copies
of original and edited files is infinite, and such storage has yet to be
invented, then Win Me won't expire checkpoints. However since infinitely
large drives have yet to be invented a time will come when the space
required to store archived files will exceed the space allocated to the
archive and at the point the state manager will reset system restore and
flush the folder.
--
Mike Maltby

Mart wrote:

Mike, FWIW and FYI my XP Home box SR points go back to mid February
with some 70+ SR dates (some with multiple SR points). That's on an
80G HDD set to 12%. and about 60% free space.

I find that with XP being so stable, I very rarely need to use SR, so
just let it 'look after itself'. Never had need to look that far back
before g The 'over one week' checkpoint disclaimer accepted of
course.

Mart,

As I said I wasn't sure about the number of days. XP's system restore by
default expires checkpoints after 90 days regardless of the amount of free
space or the space allocated to the archive. This is user configurable
and controlled by the data for the value RPLifeInterval (in seconds) found
at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore

Sorry about that - I'd hoped no-one would check and save me the trouble of
looking up the details. vbg
--
Mike

Mike wrote :-

Sorry about that - I'd hoped no-one would check and save me the trouble of
looking up the details. vbg

It's a thankless job Mike, but someone has to do it - but thanks for the
registry pointer anyway g

Mart



"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Mart wrote:

Mike, FWIW and FYI my XP Home box SR points go back to mid February
with some 70+ SR dates (some with multiple SR points). That's on an
80G HDD set to 12%. and about 60% free space.

I find that with XP being so stable, I very rarely need to use SR, so
just let it 'look after itself'. Never had need to look that far back
before g The 'over one week' checkpoint disclaimer accepted of
course.

Mart,

As I said I wasn't sure about the number of days. XP's system restore by
default expires checkpoints after 90 days regardless of the amount of free
space or the space allocated to the archive. This is user configurable
and controlled by the data for the value RPLifeInterval (in seconds) found
at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore

Sorry about that - I'd hoped no-one would check and save me the trouble of
looking up the details. vbg
--
Mike