[fultonian]

Hello All!

I set up Cobain Backup to backup the My Documents folder on one computer (WinXP) to another computer (Win 2000). (I did have it backup once locally to the XP machine). It seemed to work fine. However, I went to clean it up and when I went to delete two of the folders, I got a message that a file was in use. When I looked at it and started drilling down, I found this:

DSK1_VOL2(D
Vaio_Backups\My Documents 2006-12-03 02:00:22\Backups\My Documents 2006-12-03 02:00:22\...


It just keeps going. I went to the backup on the local drive and it is the same way. So, I have this behavior on two different machines running two different operating systems.

I have tried deleting them from dos, reboot, chkdsk (on boot), chkdsk /F from safe mode command line and everything else I can think of.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[mshabsovich]

have you tried with a selective start up from Start -> run -> msconfig? uncheck all of the listed things under selective startup temporarily. have you tried uninstalling the program, deleting the unnecessary files, and reinstalling the program if you still need it?

 

[fultonian]

I should have been clearer... The directory structure that I am referring to is the storage area, not the program area.

Even so, I disconnected the drive map between the computer that orignally created the backup (XP) and the computer (2000) that the backup was being written to. Same results.

I did try deleting it from safe mode command prompt. No error message, but it didn't delete it.

 

[JohnWill]

Does CHDKSK /F log any errors for the disk structure?

 

[doyle.jack]

Not sure how long your path is, but I believe Windows is unable to address paths longer than 260 characters. Even though they can exist.

Take a look at the following document: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx

Scroll down to the section titled "Maximum Path Length".