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Where did that Utils folder go?!
For the sake of freeing up 1.5 - 2 gigabytes of data, I've decided to burn all my collected PocketPC games and apps to CDs. A DVD would be a better solution, of course, but my laptop doesn't have a writer for it, so no DVDs for me yet. No problem however, I simply split Games and Software to different (more-less equally-sized) CDs and get rid of all that crap on my laptop afterwards!

Well, it seemed to have worked fine - both CDs were burnt and seemed to work, but as the Murphy's Laws go, there was something I apparently overlooked. Today as I was looking through the software CD for the latest KeePassPPC version, I realized the horrible truth - my Utils folder was completely empty - blank - contentless!! Perhaps the largest folder of useful programs apparently wasn't burnt to the CD and was gone with my wipe afterwards. Sounds great, doesn't it?.. Oh well, at least I still have some of those utils on my PocketPC device at least. I should just take care not to lose it from there...

Lesson of the day
When possible, prepare a separate folder that would contain all the contents you want to move to a CD. From there you will move the entire folder structure as it is to disc (this I have already done though). Once done, to verify that the folder structures don't miss anything, we are going to be using the diff like this:

This would show me which files are only in one of the places so I know and hopefully, prevent one of the data loss cases that I faced earlier...