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"ghost" files in my Music Folder??

Subject: "ghost" files in my Music Folder??
From: "Alan" <in_flagrante@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:47:16 GMT
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
While defragging my system (XP Professional) last night, I noticed something 
odd: music file titles were flitting by at the bottom of the screen, and 
they were showing ".wav" as the extension.  Being pretty sure that I didn't 
have any files in .wav format, I opened up the My Music folder and, sure 
enough, the titles I'd seen go by were listed as .mp3.

It was only after I'd used the "search for hidden files" option of File 
Search did I discover that the .wav versions of those titles were indeed on 
my computer --- they were in the program files of Burn4Free cd-burning 
program, and they happened to be files I'd burned to .cda format.  As the 
.wav versions were taking up quite a bit of room (they were roughly 10 times 
the size of the mp3 version), I deleted them.  My "Free Space" jumped from 
58% to 66%.  (One would think the Burn4Free folks might mention this 
phenomenon, since available storage space can be eaten up quite quickly)

Great ---- mystery solved and effectively dealt with, BUT . . . another 
mystery, totally unrelated to cd-burning, had presented itself:

Doing a couple of other test file searches (and NOT using the hidden file 
option), the searches consistently came up with TWO copies of the same file, 
both with EXACTLY the same name and  properties, and both described as being 
in EXACTLY the same place. This seems to be true for all the media file 
extensions in the My Music folder and did not hold true for other file types 
in other folders . . .
What's going on? Do I *really* have two copies of each of my music files? 
Is this some sort of obscure "back-up" feature I'm not aware of?
P.S. Just did a little experiment --- moved what appears to be the ONLY copy 
listed of a file in the MyMusic folder to the Desktop, and ran a file 
search.   Result: it found ONE copy on the desktop.  But when I moved it 
back to the MyMusic folder, the search found TWO identical copies in that 
folder . . .
P.P.S.  My apologies in advance to those who think I should have googled to 
find the answer on my own without bothering the newsgroup --- I did make an 
attempt, but apparently my research skills are just not up to it.   Thanks 
for your attention . . .
--
Alan



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