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As I am legally obnoxious, I have a few more questions for you before I proceed.
"Legally obnoxious"? One of my assistant fire chiefs wrote a wonderful book, mainly about her career as a National Park Service Ranger in Alaska, where she was instrumental in establishing a series of new national parks. She also wrote about how much her husband (a `mere' lieutenant) and she enjoyed their time in the fire department. In those pages she quotes an unnamed firefighter who, in referring to me, stated "I guess that there is nothing illegal about being obnoxious."
I cherish the quote, which is not totally inaccurate, as I can be obnoxious, usually when dealing with incompetent government officials. One example will suffice: In New Mexico, county governments are the fiduciary agents for county fire districts, meaning that they are responsible for ascertaining that state purchasing laws are followed correctly and that sufficient funds are available in the districts' accounts. I went to the county courthouse to request a purchase order for a two-way radio for my car ( a "POV", privately owned vehicle in fire lingo.) The purchasing agent looked at my paper work, and stated that he would have to review it, at which point I slammed down on his desk the manufacturer's data sheet and pointed out the approval of the radio by the Federal Communications Commission, which has legal jurisdiction. I said that the FCC reviewed radios, you sign purchase orders; he did so.
To my questions:
1. Having run the new profile and returned to my current default profile, I looked at the User folder for the new profile, where I found a subfolder for appdata; inside were the three subfolders, with Roaming already having some entries. Should I not open and copy the contents of the three subfolders in the default profile and copy that information to the equivalent subfolders in the new profile, rather than copying the entire appdata folder. It seems to me that, were I to do that, I would end up with, inside the existing appdata folder, a new appdata subfolder.
2. In the new profile, there are also other existing folders, most of which are empty, such as Documents; ought I not do the same thing as wth (1) above, namely copy the contents, not the folders themselves?
3. in the default, under USERS, there is a whole series of other items, such as *.dll, *manifest, even one .exe: Do these items get copied. (I will NOT copy NTUSER,DAT, having had more than enough other problems recently.)
If, and only if, you are lucky, this will conclude my being obnoxious, at least on this subject. All rights reserved....
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Hmm, I am glad, you probably are not, that I `reserved all rights': Most of the folders in the new profile are not only empty, but cannot be opened. I surmise that, rather than copying the contents, for those new folders, I should copy the entire old folders into the new profile. I guess that I will get a message about replacing the existing empty folders, or something to that effect.
Again, my apologies for being so insistent. As I wrote earlier, I have recently encountered a lengthy series of problems, such as getting a letter from one creditor saying that they could not email me the monthly bill. Turned out that the company had installed a new billing system, and had decided that my email ended in .com, instead of the .net that had been in the older system.
That was followed by my not receiving the monthly bill from another company, that had cleverly removed me from their paperless billing system. Took four calls to fix that, and the information relayed to me from a supervisor on the last call, which I had asked for previously but not received, was that paperless billing would be restarted 20Dec2017, for the Jan. 2018 bill. The December 2017 bill was received via email two days later.
Last edited by Not Myself; 22 Dec 2017 at 12:44.
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