Where oh where has my ini gone.

I'm copying one flashdrive to another, 3 gigs or so, The second drive
has never been used before.

It's 99% done when it says 2 files are duplicates.

One file whose name I forget is about 12 bytes, both of them, but the
other is desktop.ini.

It's about 50 bytes on the new flashdrive and about 450 on the old one.

I can't decide which. I don't know what the purpose of desktop.ini
is.


So I figure I'll look at them, but I can't find either of them.

So I don't copy over the bigger one and figure I'll look at them after
it finishes, but I still can't find them,. There are no .ini files at
all on either drive.

Yes, I'm set up to show system files, hidden files, Bolivian files,
everything. Desktop.ini shows on my desktop, which iirc proves I have
that file set to show.

So what gives.

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I'm copying one flashdrive to another, 3 gigs or so, The second drive
has never been used before.

It's 99% done when it says 2 files are duplicates.

One file whose name I forget is about 12 bytes, both of them, but the
other is desktop.ini.

It's about 50 bytes on the new flashdrive and about 450 on the old one.

I can't decide which. I don't know what the purpose of desktop.ini
is.


So I figure I'll look at them, but I can't find either of them.

So I don't copy over the bigger one and figure I'll look at them after
it finishes, but I still can't find them,. There are no .ini files at
all on either drive.

Yes, I'm set up to show system files, hidden files, Bolivian files,
everything. Desktop.ini shows on my desktop, which iirc proves I have
that file set to show.

So what gives.

http://bfy.tw/ATtw


--
Duncan.

micky wrote:
I'm copying one flashdrive to another, 3 gigs or so, The second drive
has never been used before.

It's 99% done when it says 2 files are duplicates.

One file whose name I forget is about 12 bytes, both of them, but the
other is desktop.ini.

It's about 50 bytes on the new flashdrive and about 450 on the old one.

I can't decide which. I don't know what the purpose of desktop.ini
is.


So I figure I'll look at them, but I can't find either of them.

So I don't copy over the bigger one and figure I'll look at them after
it finishes, but I still can't find them,. There are no .ini files at
all on either drive.

Yes, I'm set up to show system files, hidden files, Bolivian files,
everything. Desktop.ini shows on my desktop, which iirc proves I have
that file set to show.

So what gives.


Desktop.ini is a text file.

It is intended for customized views of folders.

It contains a number, and a reference to shell32.dll.
And that tells the system, what kind of view would
be appropriate for the folder.

It should be a relatively short text file.

Paul

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:50:58 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
I'm copying one flashdrive to another, 3 gigs or so, The second drive
has never been used before.

It's 99% done when it says 2 files are duplicates.

One file whose name I forget is about 12 bytes, both of them, but the
other is desktop.ini.

It's about 50 bytes on the new flashdrive and about 450 on the old one.

I can't decide which. I don't know what the purpose of desktop.ini
is.


So I figure I'll look at them, but I can't find either of them.

So I don't copy over the bigger one and figure I'll look at them after
it finishes, but I still can't find them,. There are no .ini files at
all on either drive.

Yes, I'm set up to show system files, hidden files, Bolivian files,
everything. Desktop.ini shows on my desktop, which iirc proves I have
that file set to show.

So what gives.


Desktop.ini is a text file.

It is intended for customized views of folders.

It contains a number, and a reference to shell32.dll.
And that tells the system, what kind of view would
be appropriate for the folder.

It should be a relatively short text file.

Paul

Thank and thanks, Davd ;-) ,

On 3/7/2017 4:50 AM, Paul wrote:


Desktop.ini is a text file.

It is intended for customized views of folders.

It contains a number, and a reference to shell32.dll.
And that tells the system, what kind of view would
be appropriate for the folder.

It should be a relatively short text file.

Paul
And in my experience, even thought the OS objects it does not hurt to
delete the file and let a new one be created.

Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 3/7/2017 4:50 AM, Paul wrote:


Desktop.ini is a text file.

It is intended for customized views of folders.

It contains a number, and a reference to shell32.dll.
And that tells the system, what kind of view would
be appropriate for the folder.

It should be a relatively short text file.

Paul
And in my experience, even thought the OS objects it does not hurt to
delete the file and let a new one be created.

Here are some sample contents.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fi...con-windows-7/

Paul

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 7 Mar 2017 08:22:10 -0500, Keith
Nuttle wrote:

On 3/7/2017 4:50 AM, Paul wrote:


Desktop.ini is a text file.

It is intended for customized views of folders.

It contains a number, and a reference to shell32.dll.
And that tells the system, what kind of view would
be appropriate for the folder.

It should be a relatively short text file.

Paul
And in my experience, even thought the OS objects it does not hurt to
delete the file and let a new one be created.

It turns out it was in a subdirectory, but that doesn't explain why
Everything didn't find it. When just changing D or E to C found 174 of
them. in any directory. Oh, for some reason Everything doesn't find a
single file in D: or E:, usb flashdrives, one plugged into the front of
the box and the other plugged into the back. But all the file managers
found them and their files!! And Everything will find HDDs in USB
docks.

So what is special about flashdrives?

Clicking Refresh and F5 didn't find anything either.