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PC keeps creating new "application data" subfolders

Jul 9, 2010 12:17PM PDT

Kindly take a look at http://drop.io/zrdcvzi for an example of my problem (Win7 x64). Every time I check, there's another subfolder, all with the same information. Soon, My 1TB harddrive will be full.
What could this be? A virus? My ineptness? thanks!

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Looks like an Adobe problem to me.
Jul 10, 2010 6:56AM PDT

Anything else in those folders other than Adobe?

If not, I would uninstall all Adobe products, reboot the system, and see if that stops it. After the reboot, those folders can be deleted if there is nothing else in them.

Mark

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no, all programs are there
Jul 11, 2010 11:31AM PDT

No, it contains everything, the information from all programs - it just so happens that adobe is in position 2, the others are just not shown on this screenprint.
E.g. I download sth. with internet exploere, then ctrl+f it in the browser, I find it a dozen times, in each of these subfolders...

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Strange.
Jul 11, 2010 7:48PM PDT

That image in the link you gave has gone, but may be not required again.

I'm confused. In your eg you said you download sth. What's that?

Why do you hit CTRL+F in the browser? That just brings up the Find toolbar. What are you searching for when you find this listing?

Have you checked that these many sub-folders actually exist? If you use Windows Explorer and navigate to this location, are all those folders actually there?

Mark

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yes
Jul 12, 2010 3:26AM PDT

Actually, the search and find I do in the windows explorer.
The download was just an example, anything, a picture, a file, anything I download ends up in every single subfolder "Temporary internet files". since there is 20 by now, I have all files 20 times.
20 times all cookies, 20 times all word templates, 20 times all adobe dlls, 20 times everything in the folder and its mirror subfolder...

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Could be a corrupt profile?
Jul 12, 2010 5:22AM PDT

I have had a look around for any further instances of this, and have found a few;

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/0617cfb6-dd06-4cb6-874d-0cec97d3a310

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/67002-multiple-application-data-folders-why-how.html

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?threadID=250436

But I can't say any of them supplied a positive solution to the problem. You are welcome to read them and see what you think.

I wonder if the solution here is to create a new account. If you treat this present account as corrupted, then creating a new account and copying the data from the old to the new one might solve the problem. Microsoft has specific guidance on this here;
Fix a corrupted user profile.

It's a bit of a sledgehammer perhaps, but it's the possible solution.

Mark

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total breakdown
Jul 15, 2010 2:42AM PDT

Yeah, this seem sto be a persisten win7 x64 issue.

In fact, I followed the MVP instructions listed below.
Now, Word always "forgets" what additional commands I left in the quick access bar whenerver I restert, AND printing to PDF interrupts halfway through (the printing dialogue box simply says "stopped").
No idea why.
I took away the "deny permission" on the folder, but to no avail. It displayed 300 error messages, whcih I all clicked "continue" on, and now I'm stting on the destruction.

Can anybody help fixing the quick access bar or the pdf printing?

thx

MVP instructions:
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In Windows Vista and Windows 7, both Local Settings and Application Data have been replaced by a single folder, %userprofile%\AppData\Local.

In order to accomplish the proper redirection, you need two junctions:

1) A Local Settings junction, that will forward programs going to
%userprofile%\Local Settings to the new folder.

2) An Application Data junctions *inside of the new folder* that points back on itself, to get programs accessing %userprofile%\LocalSettings\Application Data.

If you think about it, it makes sense ... when the program is accessing local settings, it will get forwarded to the folder it needs to be in, however, it is also accessing a folder named Application Data *inside of the correct folder it needs* (since it has already been redirected by the Local Settings junction), so the Application Data junction has to point back on itself for things to function properly.

I would suggest checking the security settings on your Application Data junction (C:\users\yourname\appdata\local) (you will need to select show operating system files from folder options in an explorer window).

Go to the security tab, click advanced, then edit, and make sure you see a deny permission for everyone on the list.

If there isn't one listed, create one for "Everyone" and check the box under Deny next to "read folder / list data".

I hope this information helps. Please get back to us if you have any more questions about this issue.
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