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Re: "ghost" files in my Music Folder??

Subject: Re: "ghost" files in my Music Folder??
From: Walter Mautner <leafno.20.eatallspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:25:42 +0100
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Alan wrote:

....
Ah, these intermediate wav files should be deleted after a audiocd burn,
indeed ...

> 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 . . .

The "My Mussic" folder is just a link. If you search on the whole workplace,
it will find the regular path as well as the link :)
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