Windows version marks a non-existent folder to be deleted

[ineuw]

This is not a major issue, and it may have been caused by Spybot to clean some suspected files & folders, but thought that I should let you know.

Mark for deletion 20.5kB C:\Users\ineuw\Local Settings\Temp\_MEI20202\_yappi.pyd
Delete 0 C:\Users\ineuw\Local Settings\Temp\_MEI20202
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\\\?\\C:\\Windows\\temp\\tmp000006ba\\tmp00000000': Command to delete C:\Windows\temp\tmp000006ba\tmp00000000

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

This is the same as bug #1614273, but I do not know how to reproduce it. It does not seem to happen on most systems.

Do you know which program made this file c:\WINDOWS\temp\_MEI20202? Are you able to see it normally using Windows Explorer? Can you delete it with Windows Explorer?

Does this happen every time? Or is this a one-time that that may have happened because another process quickly deleted the file just after BleachBit scanned it and just before BleachBit deleted it?

[ineuw (ineuw)]

Perhaps I can shed light on this issue. The old file was no longer there, but a new one was created as _MEI4162. I tracked down in the contents and (in my case) it's a Google Drive sync files with numerous active dll's, created by the Google Drive autostart entry in the startup and cannot be deleted.

HKCU:Run GoogleDriveSync Google "C:\Program Files\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe" /autostart

Disabled the entry, stopped Google Drive sync and deleted the folder. Rebooted, opened the Temp folder and started Google Dive app manually, and voilà, it created another folder named _MEI35842 with the same contents.

I hope this helps.

P.S: If you need the folder, I saved it, but it's 18.MB.

[ineuw (ineuw)]

I reversed the process by quitting Google Drive and activated BB again. Interestingly, BB could not dlete the folder, but I could by just tapping delete.

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

If this still exists in the latest version (BleachBit 2.1), please file bug report in the new home: https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md . If this bug no longer exists, it would be nice if you wrote a note to confirm.

[ineuw (ineuw)]

This problem is long gone, I don't even remember when I saw it last. Please close this issue. Thank you.