Paul on Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:17:42 -0500 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:

Arrgh.

Without responding to every symptom here, I'd
start by not copying desktop.ini. That will reduce
some of the magic, as desktop.ini has a shell32.dll
call in it. When Explorer is asked to view a folder,
sometimes it's also responding to the shell32.dll call
instance.

Objects have "permissions" as well as "attributes". One
of the "attributes" is Hidden. Another attribute is
called System. If you copy a Hidden item and ask Robocopy
to "preserve" every aspect, I would expect the Hidden
attribute to be copied.

I do not have a problem with copying Hidden directory
C:\ProgramData
or even hidden system directory
C:\$Recycle.Bin
and having it keep their permissions/attributes/ "other". so that
I:\Backup\ProgramData
is a hidden directory and
I:\Backup\$Recycle.Bin
is a hidden system directory. But why make I:\BackUp also a hidden
system directory? ("I'm sure it all makes sense. Not to me, but I'm
sure it does to somebody.") I realize I'm asking this more to
complain, rather than because I actually want to know. ("I'd ask, but
then they might tell me, and then I would really be confused.")

If you remove all the decorations, it might affect your
attempts to copy the materials back later (in one giant
copy command). If your objective is *just* file contents,
then you could chop away at other aspects of the copy,
just keeping the data clusters.

If I am reading this correctly,. if I do not copy desktop.ini a
lot of the weirdness/magic is likely not to propagate. This might
solve my main problem.

All this is because I decided I needed to have a second User
account to help keep separate my personal activities from my Official
Acts due to now being An Office Holder (Rah!).

tschus
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