"recover absolute path"
this is an option to check when choosing another location for a recovery. I have no idea what it means.
Old thread but relevant to me. The link you refer to says "When you choose a new location, the selected items will be recovered by default without recovering the original, absolute path. You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy. In this case select the Recover absolute path check box."
When i have 2 files on 2 different drives like this:
c:\path\to\file.txt
d:\another\file.txt
and choose to recover them to e:\recoverdir\ using "new location", trying out both Checked and Unchecked option "Recover absolute path",
they both result in the exact same folder hierachy:
e:\recoverdir\Drive(C)\path\to\file.txt
e:\recoverdir\Drive(D)\another\file.txt
ie the checkbox doen't have any effect? Or am I missing something?
Thanks
Here is what is considered an absolute path:
A full path or absolute path is a path that points to the same location on one file system regardless of the present working directory or combined paths. It is usually written in reference to a root directory.
Ok, but i can't see what difference the setting would make when one have selected new location as destination. The new location is the new root regardless of the absolute path setting isn't it? My example above clearly isn't a good example as the checkbox doesn't seem to make any difference. In what scenario would the checkbox matter and produce a different result?
--- Edit:
Ok, after a dozen e-mails back and forth I finally got this answer from Acronis support:
When you choose a new location, there is no requirement to select 'recover absolute path' because new location by default recovers the original, absolute path.Hence, you may even ignore 'recover absolute path' when new location is selected, as recovery is same with option 'recover absolute path' checked or unchecked.
Sorry I have not responded. Glad you got an answer as well. I will add that recover absolute path has a limited use and probably in most instances would be useful when recovering files or folders that must remain in the directory tree in a specific location within the filesystem itself. I suppose most modern day programs would not require this but if you are working in programming with code there would be a use for such an option. Some applications might complain as well if some data is not found in the expected location in the file system as meta data indicates. In such an instance then this option is quite useful.