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**jcgriff2** · 10-31-2008, 06:07 AM

Hi Jimmy. . .

I picked up the zip file and took a quick look at the 3 txt files, but need to further review them. There are quite a few files in the one user account - I saw that one sub-directory alone contains nearly 1gb of avi files. The entire \users folder is just under 6gb, per the "dir" cmd output. There is no "correct" amount of space figures here - my \users folder is just over 3gb. But I store a ton of files elsewhere. I do hope that you have all of those important education-related files backed up somewhere. It not, I would advise that you consider doing so via external USB HDD. If the drive were to fail or if some event occurred that required the re-install of Vista, you would lose all of them.

My first encounter with Junctions was on a Vista x86 system. If you click on a junction, it will simply re-direct you to the junction point. If that happens to be the same folder you thought you just came from, that is exactly what is happening. You are ending up at the start-point when you click on \appdata. See another post that I wrote in March 2008 on Junctions. ALso here are 2 screen shots for you:

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What was the amount of space calculated by the programs you ran for the \users folder? It seems that you may have had some system issues back on September 9 as I noticed the existence of two 3rd party memory dumps & 2 exception reports in the folder

Code:

 C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin

See if you can find these 4 files -

Code:

Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 03.11.26 exception.txt
Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 03.11.26 minidump.mdmp
Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 18.17.45 exception.txt
Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 18.17.45 minidump.mdmp

The folder name if you noticed contains "VirtualStore\Program Files" - and it is in fact the virtual copy of the \Program Files folder. Any changes made to a virtualized program's files are written to the Virtual Store and not to \Program Files\<program name> itself. These dump-related files are too small to be Vista mini kernel dumps so I assume that they were originally written to what the crash cart thought was the \Program Files folder, but ended up in the Virtual Store.

Also take a look in WERCON - Windows Problem Reports and Solutions
START | type wercon & hit enter | start with "see problems to check" or the history. I noticed there were several WER folders in the \users area.

Regards. . .

JC

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10-31-2008, 06:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
jcgriff2 Moderator, Microsoft Supp Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Palm Springs, California / Southern New Jersey Posts: 10,062 OS: Windows 7, Vista Ultimate My System	Re: interesting junction problem - hard drive showing wrong amount of free disk space Hi Jimmy. . . I picked up the zip file and took a quick look at the 3 txt files, but need to further review them. There are quite a few files in the one user account - I saw that one sub-directory alone contains nearly 1gb of avi files. The entire \users folder is just under 6gb, per the "dir" cmd output. There is no "correct" amount of space figures here - my \users folder is just over 3gb. But I store a ton of files elsewhere. I do hope that you have all of those important education-related files backed up somewhere. It not, I would advise that you consider doing so via external USB HDD. If the drive were to fail or if some event occurred that required the re-install of Vista, you would lose all of them. My first encounter with Junctions was on a Vista x86 system. If you click on a junction, it will simply re-direct you to the junction point. If that happens to be the same folder you thought you just came from, that is exactly what is happening. You are ending up at the start-point when you click on \appdata. See another post that I wrote in March 2008 on Junctions. ALso here are 2 screen shots for you: . . What was the amount of space calculated by the programs you ran for the \users folder? It seems that you may have had some system issues back on September 9 as I noticed the existence of two 3rd party memory dumps & 2 exception reports in the folder Code: C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin See if you can find these 4 files - Code: Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 03.11.26 exception.txt Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 03.11.26 minidump.mdmp Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 18.17.45 exception.txt Exception Report JOHN-PC 09-09-08 18.17.45 minidump.mdmp The folder name if you noticed contains "VirtualStore\Program Files" - and it is in fact the virtual copy of the \Program Files folder. Any changes made to a virtualized program's files are written to the Virtual Store and not to \Program Files\<program name> itself. These dump-related files are too small to be Vista mini kernel dumps so I assume that they were originally written to what the crash cart thought was the \Program Files folder, but ended up in the Virtual Store. Also take a look in WERCON - Windows Problem Reports and Solutions START \| type wercon & hit enter \| start with "see problems to check" or the history. I noticed there were several WER folders in the \users area. Regards. . . JC . __________________ . . . . . . . . BSOD Posting Instructions B Expecting a reply and waiting > 36 hours ? Send a PM to me containing a link to your thread My availability will be limited through ~ December 1, 2009