But how do I benefit from it exactly? I don't understand. The article is intended for programmers using windows APIs. Whilst I do code in. Ultimately, there is none. ChristopherEdwards You can create junctions to points lower in folder hierarchy. Show 2 more comments. JimNim JimNim 2, 11 11 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges.
I've not had time for thorough testing, but I've seen mixed results with this solution so far, and can't confirm that this solves the problem for Windows [file] Explorer. This doesn't work in File Explorer because although the system and NTFS can handle long paths, Explorer cannot until it is itself re-coded. PS, you will need to use one of the copy programs in this SO link on top of Explorer to actually make it work. Good info! I will probably just stick to Robocopy in that case.
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Klein Sign in to vote. Edited by Jacob W. Saturday, October 13, AM. Sunday, October 14, PM. Klein 5. This is still an issue for me. Klein Sunday, October 14, PM. Klein 2. Klein Monday, October 15, PM. Monday, October 15, PM. Wednesday, October 17, PM. Klein 3. How should we help you to reporduce the issue? Which 3rd party defragment program should we use? Thursday, October 18, PM. Klein 0. Thanks, Jacob. Friday, October 19, PM. I will try to give this feedback to our team related.
Thanks for all your feedback. Saturday, October 20, AM. The problem still persists, and affects non-media files. Zero, please let me know if your team finds anything. This is still causing major problems, as I cannot safely rely on File History as a backup, since I have to keep removing all older versions.
Monday, October 29, PM. So far, no more updates. Tuesday, October 30, AM. Hi Jacob, I had a similar problem, and after an hour, it occur to me to figure our where the "file history" configuration or any files related to it where been stored. I know, I almost broke my head, but it was worth the hour I spent on it. Sincerely, Julio Alvarado www. Saturday, November 3, PM. Sunday, November 4, PM.
I'm also seeing excessive backups on Windows 8 Pro, installed two days ago. I can't believe Microsoft didn't catch this issue. Whether it's the file indexer or Defender, something is making Windows believe that a large number of my files have changed from one hour to the next.
My backup is filling up with multiple copies of the same file, like some kind of out-of-control maniac. Common, Microsoft, what's up with this? Not a good first experience of this feature! Monday, November 5, PM. Same problem here. The backup disk fills up With duplicate copies of files This needs immediate attention from Microsoft! Tuesday, November 6, PM. Friday, November 9, PM. Edited by scross Sunday, November 11, PM fixed typos.
Sunday, November 11, PM. Wednesday, November 14, PM. Zero, More and more users are chiming in with this same problem. Any progress on this? Thursday, November 15, AM. So all the affected users, please install all the latest updates to check if it will work to you also. It just seems a shame that Microsoft have created the new Vista, not the replacement for 7. Friday, November 16, PM. I can confirm it is happening to me. All current maintenance is applied, yet my latest backup November 16 is happily copying a load of unchanged files that previous backups have already done several times see the screenshot of an Explorer listing below, which just shows the earliest 4 of about 20 copies of one example.
If this carries on it will render File History unworkable for me, which is a shame as it was one of the prime reasons I moved to Windows 8. Saturday, November 17, AM. It's happening here also. Used about G of backup drive today on about G of files! Sunday, November 18, PM. Microsoft should take care of that. If it worked as it should it would be a decent system. Let's hope it gets sorted out soon.
Zero, I really feel that we have not received proper answers, and that you are giving us the run around here. So I ask you to please answer the following questions: 1 Have the File History software engineers been made aware of this problem? We have already reported this issue to our product quality team, they are reporting to related departments.
Thanks for all your patience for this issue. Monday, November 19, AM. After the two updates a few days ago that weighed in at about MB in total, the original problem, continuous backing up, went away. However, now when I try to see what I can restore, I'm told "File history is saving copies of your files for the first time" I can't restore any files.
Fixed "File history is saving copies of your files for the first time" File History is now working as it should. Tuesday, November 20, AM. I've had the same problem. This really needs to be looked at urgently as in it's current state it is unusable. Zero, I inspected my backup history, to give you more information. Tuesday, November 20, PM. I decided to close down FileHistory and switched back to Windows 7 Backup.
Wednesday, November 21, AM. Tuesday, November 27, AM. This is an issue for me as well. Tuesday, November 27, PM. Saturday, December 1, PM. Zero, I posted some log extracts on November My backup drive is now two thirds full with redundant backups.
Wednesday, December 5, AM. Wednesday, December 5, PM. Zero: I really hope you and the quality team have had success finding the cause -- any luck? It is still being backed up erroneously, most recently on December 4: Windows Update is set to install updates automatically, as it has been throughout.
Thursday, December 6, AM. Thursday, December 6, PM. I think you may have the clue here Jammy. Yesterday I shared my music library and a couple of other smaller folders on the Homegroup. I have found that since doing this File History seems to have backed up these folders again, around gigs of duplicate backups where the files in the folders have not changed for years!
I have a fully patched system here Windows 8 pro 64bit. Friday, December 7, AM. I know where my long file names go now! Saturday, December 8, PM. Sunday, December 9, AM. Thank you, Jacob. But no matter - you have every right to expect the feature to work properly. Have you tried clearing and fully rebuilding your index? Sunday, December 9, PM. Tuesday, December 11, PM. Hi Dorothy, I guess you are having the same problem as us. I have the same problem as well, I have now more than 1TB of history backups on my server.
Many versions of the same file, which can not have changed at all. Sometimes even with exactly the same timestamp. I am now deleting all history execpt the last versions. Saturday, December 15, AM. So, I now turned Files History off all together and deleted the history files manually. File history is in principle a great tool but we need to be able to backup to NAS Edited by cabrio4ever Sunday, December 16, AM.
Sunday, December 16, AM. NAS might be involved for some, but not for me. Sunday, December 16, PM. Could it be that File History get messed up by this disconnection? Monday, December 17, PM. Don't think so. I've tried it on an external usb drive and an internal permanently connected drive. Same problem on both. Tuesday, December 18, PM. Wednesday, December 26, PM. Friday, December 28, AM.
Zero, It is now over a month since anyone from MS informed us about the status of this problem. Saturday, December 29, PM. I would appreciate a solution from Microsoft. Tuesday, January 1, AM. Klein 1. I'm sorry you have this problem. We all want it fixed. Klein Tuesday, January 1, AM. I'm having the same problem. It's backing up to an internal hard drive. Hope MSFT fixes this soon. Saturday, January 5, AM. Microsoft, where are you?
Saturday, January 5, PM. Wednesday, January 9, AM. It appears that, for me, the problem is only happening on the following Libraries: Music Pictures Videos I don't think it's a coincidence that these are the default shares for a HomeGroup, when setting one up, and I recently did set one up. So, I believe the possible libraries that could exhibit this behavior are: Documents Music Pictures Videos So, the next questions are: - Does anyone have evidence that this problem is happening outside of those 4 libraries?
Klein Wednesday, January 9, PM. Wednesday, January 9, PM. Jacob, I can confirm that I have a HomeGroup, and that the four libraries you mention including Documents are shared in the group. Thanks Roger. Thursday, January 10, AM. I'll also keep monitoring this to see if a fix has been found. Thursday, January 10, PM. Friday, January 11, PM. Off it goes now! All the best guys and impressed with your patience. Thursday, January 17, PM. Bob, I am sorry to laugh, because that's rude, but It's not a File History, it's a serpent eating its own tail My gosh!
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given Thanks Noel, I'm tempted I will give this a go and report back in the next few days on my experience as well. Thanks all. Friday, January 18, AM. I've also been having this problem. I tried file history again today hoping that the updates that were installed this week may have addressed the issue, but to no avail.
However, I've just tried turning off the home group function and everything seems to be working fine. Hopefully MS will get on to this quickly now, but it's not like I ever used home group anyway. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
I removed share on my music etc. Yes I think that's what I did. I don't have a game console and my TV doesn't have access to my network, so that's not an issue for me. If you need TV etc access than I suggest you try sharing with these and switching other shares off.
I'm hoping that someone from MS is reading this thread and might say - 'hmm, that's a good clue'. Oh I can hear some pigs flying overhead - cloud's too low to see them though! Friday, January 18, PM.
Anyone know why I'm not getting any events in the File History backup log? I did when I first turned File History on, not now though. Saturday, January 19, PM. I switched off Media Sharing not Homegroup and that seems to have fixed the problem as well.
I still have a few files old music and photos that are duplicate just two copies that I can't explain, but for the most part it now looks like I'm only backing up files that I have changed.
I have a lot of photos and I'm keeping file histore on a 12T storage space drive. File history was set for hourly and my drive was filling up in days. I've now been about a week and my history appears to be pretty stable. Wednesday, January 23, PM. Drive almost full again.
Back to square one again after formatting the drive and, this time, turning off Homegroup. Will report back in a week or so to confirm whether switching off Homegroup has helped for me. Monday, January 28, PM. I had been meaning to report back my latest findings. Here is what I've found: On the weekend where I tried to figure out the "trigger" of the problem, I was not successful. Wednesday, January 30, PM. Thursday, January 31, PM. Julian, After you turned HomeGroup off, did you make sure to both manually run FileHistory to flush out any queued duplicates , and restart the system to ensure HomeGroup was not initialized during the session , before monitoring for duplicates?
Jacob, Probably effectively, though I can't be sure. As far as I recall, my course of action was as follows: Turn off Homegroup Format the File History drive Log an to each user on each machine and check their File History settings. In every case, File History said it could not find the original drive. I therefore navigated to and selected the re-formatted drive and ran File History. Fair enough. Hello All, I have having the same problem here.
Saturday, February 2, PM. Same problem with me, multiple copies of identical unchanged files and backup disk full. I've read another thread as well, it is a big problem that needs to be fixed soon!
Wednesday, February 6, PM. I'm having the same issue. In just two weeks my backup storage has now grown to over GB. That is about 4 times the size of the entire drive I run file history on. I'm going to have to disable File History and seek some other solution if the issue is not resolved. Thursday, February 7, PM. Has anyone from MS addressed this yet? I just tried Windows Back Up and that does the exact same thing.
Very Sad MS!!!! Any one have a backup solution that works that will do incremintal backups? Thursday, February 14, PM. Some more info from other forums that might be relevant: 1 Files created before Windows 8 seem to be flagged as modified every time they are accessed as evidenced by the setting of the ARCHIVE attribute.
Saturday, February 16, PM. Sunday, March 3, AM. I have Win 8 Pro, no Media Center and none in the house. Sunday, March 3, PM. Monday, March 4, PM. Steps: 1 To see thumbs. Wednesday, March 6, AM. Noel: Well that's good news, thanks. Have you encountered the issue which is the topic of this thread? Thursday, March 7, AM. Proposed Fix 1 above rids your system and future backups of the annoying thumbs. Thursday, March 7, PM. Thank you BlueDragon I will give your proposed fixes 1 and 1 a try and report back Saturday, March 9, AM.
Friday, March 15, PM. Klein Saturday, March 23, PM. Saturday, March 23, PM. Sunday, March 24, AM. Friday, March 29, AM. Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow.
No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. They indicate that the path should be passed to the system with minimal modification, which means that you cannot use forward slashes to represent path separators, or a period to represent the current directory, or double dots to represent the parent directory. When using an API to create a directory, the specified path cannot be so long that you cannot append an 8.
The shell and the file system have different requirements. It is possible to create a path with the Windows API that the shell user interface is not able to interpret properly. However, you must opt-in to the new behavior.
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