Sunday January 4
 
23:24
 
Red Herrings

The thing about red herrings is that they’re not red and they don’t smell like fish, but they do hurt when you’re being slapped in the face with them.

It turns out my strange issue was nothing to do with my monitor or my install, but a program that I had trusted in XP crashing its bollocks off under Vista.

The program with sore bollocks is Syncback SE. I used to run the non-SE version in XP. What Syncback does is this: point it at a source directory and a destination directory and every time you run it it will copy the changed files from source to destination. Worked a charm in XP. Works like Dark Magic, it seems, under Vista 64-bit.

Building a PC was my New Year vacation ”project”. As long as I never hit this problem again, I’ll be happy – because today was the end of my NY vacation! I’ll try Syncback (non-SE version) to see whether it works OK, but I certainly wont be using Syncback SE again.

Update 10th Jan 2009: While Syncback SE did show this issue, it doesn’t appear to be Syncback SE’s fault. Read here.