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andrei1911
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Restore an entire folder to before a date
Hi All.
I have a folder where I keep a lot of small scripts. Due to some errors working with git, I restored all the files to a bad version. I tried to undo the change but made it even worse. Long story short, now I have to restore about 400 files to the last version before 27 oct. Some are the same from may, some june and so on. Is there a fast way to restore all the files in the folder to what they were on 26 Oct? Or to the version that is previous to the one on 27 Oct? I wont like doing it manually.
Thanks anyone for help,
Andrei
Hey ben
I launched a boot trace to find the cause of the problem and I noticed that the corresponding option in the preferences of the application does not disable the startup at all. It has the only role of requesting a "quiet close" of the Dropbox processes during the startup phase. It also explain why you still see Dropbox in msconfig even after unchecking the box...
That said, Dropbox create a key for its own startup, hidden in Windows registry, the only option to fully disable Dropbox at startup is to remove it from there.
Lets find it in one of the following paths:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
You should find the line:
Dropbox "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /systemstartup
Backup it if necessary and just delete it. Done, no more Dropbox at startup!
Note: You may have to repeat the operation regularly as Dropbox updates could recreate startup reg key anytime 😋
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