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System Restore reverted PA updates?

Is it possible that a system restore reverted some of the recently updated PortableApps? I restored from a restore point made on Sept. 21 and apps that I had already updated within the last week including Stellarium, CintaNotes, RawTherapee, Stinger, Free Download Manager, and Smart Defrag all needed re-updated after it got restored.

I have them on the hard drive

C:\Users\username\Desktop\Kingston

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Yep

System restore restores everything on your hard drive. If they'd been on an external drive or a separate partition, you wouldn't have had this happen, however as you have them on the main partition, you will notice that this may occur.

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Thanks for the info!

Everything on the hard drive? Even though it said it would not effect my files?

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My experience

In my experience, regardless of how Windows states System Restore works, I have found that everything on the drive is affected. Keep in mind, however, that that is my experience. YMMV.

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it will

if the files are on a partition for which the system restore is switched on and the restore points are sufficient in size and there is also space on that drive, then it will include it into the restore point.

Otto Sykora
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