Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?

There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

"John Doe" wrote in message
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There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

I too am looking at the same type of mystery folder. Mine was created on the
root drive- a random 26 character folder. It contains 2 subfolders: amd64
and i386. Those folders contain dll's.
I *believe* that this folder was created after I uninstalled Intuit's
TurboTax from the system. But it may have been created after I ran the
Intuit "reboot" prog inside QuickBooks. (Every time I uninstall TurboTax, QB
will not start. I run the "reboot" package which repairs the QB loader -
[nice programming Intuit]).
I recall dealing with this before and I just deleted the folder (after
restore point and backup) without any problems. But I'm not doing it until
I've got time to deal with any unexpected PIA.
Have you installed/uninstalled anything recently?

"TVeblen" wrote in message
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"John Doe" wrote in message
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There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

I too am looking at the same type of mystery folder. Mine was created on
the root drive- a random 26 character folder. It contains 2 subfolders:
amd64 and i386. Those folders contain dll's.
I *believe* that this folder was created after I uninstalled Intuit's
TurboTax from the system. But it may have been created after I ran the
Intuit "reboot" prog inside QuickBooks. (Every time I uninstall TurboTax,
QB will not start. I run the "reboot" package which repairs the QB
loader - [nice programming Intuit]).
I recall dealing with this before and I just deleted the folder (after
restore point and backup) without any problems. But I'm not doing it until
I've got time to deal with any unexpected PIA.
Have you installed/uninstalled anything recently?


I take it you're running 64 bit Vista or Win 7. Your mystery
folder is probably a leftover from updating the WinSxS
folder in the Windows directory. If you look there you
will probably see similar strange folder names. The WinSxS
folder contains many thousands of subfolders with API files.
As a matter of interest, my Vista Ultimate 64 WinSxS folder
contains 58,398 files in 48,560 sub-directories for a total of
14.1GB. A 64 bit OS has about twice the files of a 32 bit
OS because it has complete sets for x64 (amd64), and x86
(i386).

In article , John Doe
says...

There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

Temporary file and folder left behind after applying a service pack.

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Conor

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"Conor" wrote in message
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In article , John Doe
says...

There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

Temporary file and folder left behind after applying a service pack.


Mmmm. Would that include .NET Framework 3.5?

In article , TVeblen says...

"Conor" wrote in message
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In article , John Doe
says...

There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

Temporary file and folder left behind after applying a service pack.


Mmmm. Would that include .NET Framework 3.5?

Yeah.


--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

Bob Horvath wrote:

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I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not
updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW.

Can you open it?

Bob Horvath wrote:
Bob Horvath wrote:
Bob Horvath wrote:

Hmm.

Posting XNoArchive AND messing up the introductions.

I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not
updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW.

Can you open it?

Yep,

I could not.

it has two subfolders,AMD64 and i386, with files inside of them.
I renamed the main folder "old4238912756470919" about a week or so
ago, and have not had any ill effects with the system so far.

So delete it.

















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Subject: Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
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"Bob Horvath" wrote in message
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Hi guys,
I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not
updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW.

Bob


I have one too and it says in the readme it was created by SP1 for Vista. XP
has a had a few service packs so it from one of those, or a service pack to
..Net or IE. It can be deleted.

"Juarez" wrote:
"Bob Horvath" wrote

I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not
updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW.

I have one too... It can be deleted.

Yours... Mine was not something you could just delete. I could not
even access the contents of "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" from within
Windows. If it could have been easily deleted, I would have not
mentioned it. Junk folders are not uncommon.