Questions tagged [reparse-points]
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What can I do about Windows 7 Backup error 0x81000037, apparently caused by reparse points?
I've been getting this error:
0x81000037: Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up
trying to take a Windows backup of my workstation (Windows 7 Professional x64)
The MS Knowledge Base…
Dylan Beattie
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Can I create a shortcut which points to a specific drive regardless of its drive letter?
I noticed that I cannot use \\?\Volume{f993747a-5d7a-4de1-a97a-c20c1af1ba02}\path\to\target or \Device\HarddiskVolume5\path\to\target as shortcut targets—it won't work. It only works when I use drive letters in absolute paths. I don't want to use…
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What's going on with this reparse point created by mklink?
Here's some odd behavior I encountered with mklink which ships in Windows since Vista. I suspect if may be a defect in mklink or even as deep as the NTFS file system driver, but the behavior could use some explanation. This behavior was encountered…
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How to delete the OneDrive reparse point?
I replaced the HDD from my machine by an SSD, and I'm trying to use the old HDD for other purposes, without reformatting it. My new SSD is booting as C:\ and the old HDD (which used to be C:\) is now under E:\. The first thing is to get rid of all…
fernacolo
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Real location of OneDrive folder in Windows 10
I specified a custom location for the personal OneDrive folder while installing the OneDrive client in my Windows 10 Pro v1903. I placed this folder in the root of the drive D. After using this folder for some days I found that not all apps like…
Tecman
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If you have an SSD and an HDD, how to use them efficiently?
SSDs are better for reading data and HDDs are better for writing data.
SSDs are limited in size so I can only store a selected set of data on it.
Should I install Windows on the SSD or on the HDD?
Should I create junction points (soft/hard links)…
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How can one find Reparse Points in Windows 7?
My backup keeps failing with error code 0x81000037 and Microsoft's KB says that I have reparse points somewhere that are causing this. How can I find them in a large group of files and folders?
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Can't do delete folder with the tag present in the reparse buffer point is invalid
There are two folders I have that are both subfolders in two seperate directories. I needed to delete both of their parent directories and what I found was that everything except those two folders were deleted. When I try to delete them, I keep…
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Recovering corrupted OneDrive files
I wanted to backup my OneDrive for Business folder to an external HD (I use Veeam) and that has not been possible for a while, since some update by Microsoft.
This morning I did some research and I stumbled upon this:…
Fr Pesca
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What does [...] mean for Reparse Point Target when dir /al is executed
When I execute dir \al (Attribute: Reparse Points), I get a result that lists reparse points. The following output is easy enough to understand with columns being Date Modified, Time Modified, Dir Type (empty if it's a file), File Size in bytes…
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Reparse points, placeholders, sizes in parentheses, and Dropbox SmartSync
I use OneDrive, where each file in the relevant Windows folder is a reparse point (visible through dir /al). When I clear the Windows space for a particular file, it becomes a placeholder with the size shown in parentheses on the relevant dir…
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Aren’t reparse points a massive security risk?
As far as I understand it, reparse points can be added to any file (not talking about symbolic links, but adding them to the ADS of existing files)
Wouldn’t it then be possible to create an image.jpg that has a reparse point to cmd.exe? Or am I…
