March 13, 200719 yr I keep seeing a file $RECYCLE.BIN file appear in one or more of my user share dirs on my vista 32 bit machine at any given time. The file doesn't actuallly exist in any of the 'real' directories on the disks themselves. IE I see this in my windows client 'videos' user share but not in disk1/videos disk2/videos on the unraid server itself. I can usuallly make it go away by re-scanning the shares on the unraid server. I haven't yet figured out exactly what causes this 'ghost' file to appear. It's a fairly harmless problem but annoying since the file appears in Media Center and looks ugly next to my video and picture files/thumbnails. I guess it's probably Vista's 'fault' just wondered if anybody else was seeing this and/or knew of a solution to prevent it from happening.
March 17, 200719 yr Author I think I found the answer, unchecking folder organize,folder and search options,view, 'hide protected operating system files' makes the file invisible to windows again, the default setting. There's also a 'do not show hidden files and folders' setting but the former one was the root problem. I had turned one/both these on to confirm the existence of various swap and hibernate files I was moving around at one point.
March 21, 200719 yr Yes, M$ added some more goodies to the SMB protocol with Vista. I'm not sure of the status of Samba with Vista yet.
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