Paul news Jan 2018 21:28:56 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Dick Baker wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:11:56 +0000, Dick Baker wrote:

Win7 64-bit Home Edition.

I just discovered that my backup utility, FarStone Total
Recovery, has been failing to back up my MSIE Favorites folder,
C:\Users\DB7\Favorites.
I poked around in TR and found that when it looks there, it
finds a folder named Favorites 160822. Windows Explorer shows
it as simply Favorites, so I thought TR was nuts.

But when I opened a command prompt and did a directory listing
for C: \Users\DB7, it too reported that the folder was Favorites
160822. And when I copy that directory to another drive, it
shows up there as Favorites 160822.

I tried deleting that folder and creating a new Favorites, but
when I ran MSIE, it promptly created Favorites 160822 right
alongside my Favorites, and flagged that version as the "real"
Favorites directory with its little star icon.

Thinking that something in the Registry was telling Win7/MSIE 11
to behave this way, I searched it for the string "Favorites
160822," but no hits.

So I uninstalled MSIE 11 and 10 (which I was surprised to find
still there) and reinstalled a fresh copy of 11...which then
promptly recreated Favorites 160822.

At this point, I'm out of ideas. Anybody got another one?

Mayana was right in that the desktop.ini file is what was fooling
WinExp. When I deleted that file, WinExp reported the folder by
it's *real* name of Favorites 160822.

But Paul's hint was the solution. He wrote:
https://www.howtogeek.com/115412/cha...t-location-for
-saving- internet-explorer-favorites/

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Expl
orer\ User Shell Folders\Favorites

Apparently that links to the real storage location for that
folder.

And it did: The registry entry read "%USERPROFILE%\Favorites
160822"

I changed that to simply "Favorites"; then the next time I ran
MSIE it created a new Favorites folder alongside the Favorites
160822 folder, and the new one had the star indicating it was the
true one. I copied all the links from the old bad one to the new
good one and now all is well.

BUT one puzzle remains. As I said in my original note, one of my
first troubleshooting steps was to search the registry for
"Favorites 160822", but I got no hits. When I followed Paul's
instructions and found that it really was there, but before
changing it, I did another search through the registry looking
for "Favorites 160822" and *again* it failed to find such a
string. How could that be?


Does the Regedit search treat the space between the two
search terms properly ?

I don't know that.

The search has three tick boxes plus a "match whole string" box.
You could try changing the "match whole string" and see what
happens.

Registry keys have permissions (the registry is a file system),
but I don't know if that prevents search inside a Hive or not.
Usually permissions become an issue when you actually change
something.

It can, depending on the permissions settings. You can set the
permissions to where you can't view the key without the proper rights
beforehand.


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