mikeymikec
Lifer
For a while I've been background-wondering why I was ending up with a 'System Volume Information' folder in my Documents folder on Linux. This line of thought quickly pointed towards me having VIrtualbox installed with some Windows OS VMs (Win2k, XP, Win7, Win10), but interestingly it's only the Win10 VM that's creating this folder in my shared Linux 'Documents' folder every time on VM startup.
I can easily delete the folder in Linux, then I tried this:
Which hasn't helped. I'm not really keen on disabling indexing entirely because I like to leave my guest Windows VMs as 'virgin' as possible, but the folder's existence is bugging me and I can't see me doing much file searching in a guest OS let alone wanting it to search faster.
- edit - disabling the 'Windows Search' service did the trick and I can still do file searches:
I can easily delete the folder in Linux, then I tried this:
How to Disable System Volume Information Folder for Removable Drives
You can make Windows stop creating System Volume Information folder on removable drives every time you connect your flash drive to the computer. If you
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- edit - disabling the 'Windows Search' service did the trick and I can still do file searches:
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