My todo list for Python projects has been growing increasingly longer with the arrival of the better weather and various distractions appear on the scene. One distraction has been this new Dell Vista laptop. Anyway, I got back to back up with LDBackup and notice two oddities. For some reason xcopy (used by the windows version) gets Access Denied creating the destination version of 'My Music'. Nothing to do with Python so I suspect something DRM-esque...

A bit of googling reveals xcopy has been deprecated (it is a bit limited). Vista comes with robocopy which appears to be a big update to xcopy but not a direct replacement. So what was going to be a small tweak for LDBackup looks like a big change but will help get rid of the platform specific stuff.

How do you test for Vista in Python?

It has been interesting time on Vista other than the horribly slow file copy. Roll on Vista Service Pack One.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-05-26 21:07:12.
Categories: Python, Software Tags : LDBackup Vista
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