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Why does this happen when connect a hard drive to my computer that has a Windows installation on it?

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
I'm attempting to back up data from a client's hard drive. Basically when I attempt to delete their temp internet file folder, it says there is no file. Then, when I open the folder to see the contents, I can see cookies and what not from my own Windows installation. Why does this happen?
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I'm attempting to back up data from a client's hard drive. Basically when I attempt to delete their temp internet file folder, it says there is no file. Then, when I open the folder to see the contents, I can see cookies and what not from my own Windows installation. Why does this happen?
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Because your doing it via the shell. That folder has a shell extension handler (pointed to by the hidden desktop.ini file located there) which brings up the cache item view. That view is always of your local cache.

Just do it from a cmd prompt.

Bill
 
I discovered that evilness a long time ago with Win9x. For some reason, there appears to be a hardwired check for $(windir)\FONTS, or perhaps it is just another desktop.ini thing, but slaving a secondary Win9x installation drive, and then deleting the entire \WINDOWS tree, using Explorer.exe - well, it would nuke the fonts from your *current* Win9x installation, rather than simply delete the \FONTS dir from the slaved drive.

The level of brain-deadness of Windows continues to amaze me sometimes.


PS. Did you know that "dotfiles" (.*) weren't counted as files by Explorer.exe in the file stats summary? IOW, right-click on a directory, click "Properties", and the file count wouldn't include the dotfiles. I haven't checked if XP still has that bug or not.
 
This is the only program I've found that will get around almost all of the Windows file restrictions. It will view and delete the temporary internet files, as well as items in c:\windows\downloaded program files folders.

EF commander free version
 
Wait until we get the "Virtual Folders" feature in Vista. I'm sure that things will get even more screwy and broken.

(Finally, XP gets something similar to the directory syslogical name feature that VMS had years ago!)
 
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