Nonetheless, it makes a great example of Everything making me aware of apparent discrepancies in my operating procedures.
Sunday nights I backup my data T: to a USB drive Y:, then backup the Y: drive to a cumulative Z: drive, and finally make a mirror image of my T: data drive to the nightly backup Y:.
At the end of this run, my drives T: and Y: should be perfect copies of each other.
Monday morning I made an EFU list of my backup drive Y:, dismounted the backup drive, and then added the EFU list to Tools, Options, Indexes.
I tested by looking for files "WhatFAQ/DOC" of which I have hundreds - one for each project of any kind.
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Note: The Result List displays an odd number (493) of items; I expected an even number. I do not recall deleting (or creating) a new WhatFAQ.DOC between Sunday night at 1800 hours and Monday morning at 1000 hours. Although at the bottom of this screenshot it seems that I might have re-arranged some folders (in \Greaves\Products\User\Spell) that is a result of the screenshot being truncated.
With any file other than WhatFAQ.DOC I would think "Oh well, maybe a created or deleted a copy between last night and this morning", but my WhatFAQ docs are special document. They contain uniquely numbered lists of any problem, suggestion, enhancement etc in a project, and these files are not lightly created or deleted.
I post this here for a heads-up, and will mull over it
I truly expect to have matching pairs of files after a mirror-image is made.
Cheers, Chris