• Phantom Folder!
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I was using a BAT file to backup files onto my hard drive and I noticed that it was copying from the directory C:\users\max\documents\my music\ The problem is that I'm using Vista so my music is supposed to be stored in C:\users\max\music\. I didn't upgrade to Vista either, so the My Music folder shouldn't exist in the first place. I tried to look for the "My Music" folder in Windows explorer but I couldn't find it. I made sure that hidden files were visible and it still wasn't there. So I typed in the path in the address bar and it gave me this message: [quote]Location is not available C:\Users\Max\Documents\My Music is not accessible. Access is denied.[/quote] And that's not the message it gives if you type the address of a nonexistent folder, so the folder definitely exists. I'm using the administrator account so I should have access anyway. So then I tried a command prompt. Once again, if I went into C:\users\max\documents and typed dir, My Music wouldn't show up on the list of directories. But... [code]C:\Users\Max\Documents>cd "my music" C:\Users\Max\Documents\My Music>dir Volume in drive C is VistaOS Volume Serial Number is 64B4-EE75 Directory of C:\Users\Max\Documents\My Music File Not Found[/code] What. The. Fuck. When I was using my BAT file to copy everything in my Documents folder over to my external hard drive it was finding all of my music in this phantom folder that apparently doesn't exist. What the hell is going on?
It's been there since XP (hence the name), and Microsoft will never take it out. You can pretend it's not there but it always will be.
Weird. Yeah, I found the others as well: My Videos and My Pictures. I was able to delete all three using [code]rmdir /s[/code] It didn't seem to break anything or affect my real Videos, Pictures, and Music folders. I guess they're just shortcut-like objects since they didn't seem to take up any space on my drive.
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