Here is a question I do not recall being addressed. In the last week I have had to completely rebuild my system. Following a lengthy install and configuration I had to look for the locatiuon of a settings file for an application (to make a backup). Being a dinosaur, I prefer to do this from the command line so I did the following
C:\>cd \users\jim\appdata
C:\Users\Jim\AppData>dir *inspiron* /s
In a very short time I started getting multiple lines of
The directory name C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\Last Active is too long.
Upon further checking I discovered that I seemed to have a recursive directory. I suspect that one of the entries was pointing back on itself so that the directory tree was effectively infinite. The problem is in the AppData\Local folder. A listing of the entries at this level shows
Directory of C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Local
2012-03-30 12:35 <DIR> .
2012-03-30 12:35 <DIR> ..
2012-03-27 22:01 <DIR> {050CAF75-5613-460F-BA72-014A6E41ACF6}
2012-03-28 13:02 <DIR> {1D0110D3-61AD-4D4F-A99F-77B21023807E}
2012-03-30 06:30 <DIR> {2B8150D2-D4BB-43CA-979B-760BA277B825}
2012-03-29 05:49 <DIR> {308C1C85-C323-4423-A3E7-11FD2A9997B9}
2012-03-28 10:01 <DIR> {50C9FA41-8D3F-4B92-8BB0-713B045ED48F}
2012-03-27 10:00 <DIR> {70050B67-D3DF-4D7A-A3DA-3315A1905FF3}
2012-03-28 13:47 <DIR> {A43BF7CD-1BE4-4B77-90F5-CA9586D76BFF}
2012-03-29 17:50 <DIR> {C5E780B7-A294-4753-973F-3F653C6C6F24}
2012-03-30 06:30 <DIR> {CAC314B1-F3B7-416E-BEFF-AC6C9370BFE4}
2012-03-28 13:51 <DIR> {F2AB3D3B-CF02-4570-BF2E-B56800962B12}
2012-03-27 17:00 <DIR> ACD Systems
2012-03-27 18:47 <DIR> Adobe
2012-03-26 23:21 <DIR> assembly
2012-03-26 23:11 <DIR> DDMSettings
2012-03-28 08:34 <DIR> Diagnostics
2012-03-26 23:18 <DIR> Downloaded Installations
2012-03-26 22:33 <DIR> http___www.fosoft.net_
2012-03-30 08:40 <DIR> Microsoft
2012-03-27 21:53 <DIR> Microsoft Games
2012-03-28 13:11 <DIR> Microsoft Help
2012-03-27 15:45 <DIR> Microsoft_Corporation
2012-03-26 21:25 <DIR> Mozilla
2012-03-26 22:44 <DIR> PackageAware
2012-03-29 18:30 <DIR> PasswordSafe
2012-03-28 11:36 <DIR> Phat_Chants_Software
2012-03-27 13:11 <DIR> Programs
2012-03-30 07:46 <DIR> Songbird2
2012-03-30 13:07 <DIR> Temp
2012-03-27 15:32 <DIR> VirtualStore
2012-03-29 20:21 <DIR> VMware
2012-03-30 06:30 <DIR> Windows Live
2012-03-27 16:56 6,656 DCBC2A71-70D8-4DAN-EHR8-E0D61DEA3FDF.ini
2012-03-27 13:26 102,856 GDIPFONTCACHEV1.DAT
2 File(s) 109,512 bytes
33 Dir(s) 27,187,662,848 bytes free
I have no idea how to correct this without (possibly) making the problem worse. At the moment my system seems to function just fine but I don't know that this will not cause me grief down the road. Any suggestions?
