Now we know why I no longer support bare-metal installs a. k. a. non-virtualized environments.

In the situation of doing the mass mapping, I would just take a snapshot of the virtual machine, try the mass mapping, and revert back if it didn't work. Same with the upgrade. Saving a snapshot takes seconds. Reverting to a snapshot takes minutes.

For you bare-metal install guys, if something goes wrong you get to spend 1.5 days restoring from backup. Maybe more.

See my post here on why you should virtualize.

https://acusersforum.com/ub/ubbthreads.php/topics/78293/why-you-must-virtualize#Post78293

JamesNT

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