"Low" folder not copying

[WhitetailAni]

Finished my 2TB drive (named "BULK") and discovered that there's a folder with 545 GB of data on it.

I don't know what it is, but I'm going to ask my dad - I've put maybe 100GB of data on here total.

Anyway.

I started copying my 250GB drive (which interestingly is the only SATA II drive in there, and also 7200RPM, named "Storage") and it kept telling me that it couldn't copy the folder "Low".
It's happened twice now, and I'm halfway through the data.

Does anyone know what this folder is and why it's noncopyable?

[Hairless Monkey]

23 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

and discovered that there's a folder with 545 GB of data on it.

That's a whole lot of porn. 

 

24 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

the folder "Low".

Does anyone know what this folder is and why it's noncopyable?

It isn't "LocalLow"? That would be one of the AppData folders.

 

This drive had Windows on it?

 

If you don't know what the folder is, why do you need to copy it?

 

What is the location of the folder? Like "C:\Users\Butts\...etc..."

[WhitetailAni]

9 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

That's a whole lot of porn. 

Folder's called "WindowsImageBackup"

9 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

It isn't "LocalLow"? That would be one of the AppData folders.

Nope. Just "Low".

9 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

This drive had Windows on it?

Nope - it's a 250GB HDD used as a secondary storage drive. Although - my dad used this, plus the 2TB one, as storage for almost everything non-Windows essential.

9 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

If you don't know what the folder is, why do you need to copy it?

I'm backing up the drive.

9 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

What is the location of the folder? Like "C:\Users\Butts\...etc..."

It has many, and not all have files in them:
F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PrivacIE\Low (no files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\IETIdCache\Low (no files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UserData\Low (files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCookies\Low (files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCookies\DNTException\Low (no files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Low (files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\IECompatUaCache\Low (no files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\IECompatCache\Low (no files)

F:\Temp\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History\Low (files)

 

This same sequence of filepaths repeats for every user there ever was and is on this computer.
Looks kinda like Internet Explorer stuff to me, and if it is, I don't care anymore.

[Hairless Monkey]

It seems like those are mostly hidden folders for temp files. I wouldn't worry about trying to back those up.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

It seems like those are mostly hidden folders for temp files. I wouldn't worry about trying to back those up.

Well, they're going to be gone forever now!
Two reasons for backing up:
1. To back up
2. To recreate my NTFS partition because Linux said "NTFS partition is unstable, unmounting..." while booting my installer.

[WhitetailAni]

confusion

When copying my data back, it created "Low" folders.

[jqz]

On 1/8/2021 at 2:13 PM, FakeKGB said:

it kept telling me that it couldn't copy the folder "Low".

 

On 1/8/2021 at 2:39 PM, Hairless Monkey Boy said:

It isn't "LocalLow"? That would be one of the AppData folders.

It used to be named "Low" in older versions of Windows (maybe XP).

When Microsoft changed the folder layout and nomenclature (possibly from Vista) to have a "Users" directory instead of "Documents and Settings" they also introduced some kind of weird symlimking so that 'legacy' apps could still find the files.  Unfortunately, they made a botched job of it, and have still not fixed the issues introduced even to this day AFAIAA.  If you try to access these links using File Explorer, DOS, another OS, or probably anything not running in "compatibility mode" within Windows, you'll get an access denied or unspecified error.  But there's nothing in there, they are just symlinks.