Re: copying a profile, misses local settings so misses email

Sounds like your system has some real problems.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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<q_q_anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| thanks. i'm not sure if my original reply to you got posted. google
| may have fouled up.
|
| from what you said, i found the problem.
|
| here are my current conclusions.
|
| I was mistaken when I said profiles can't be copied in explorer. They
| can and it's the best and perhaps the only reasonable way.
|
| the win2k start..ctrl panel..system..user profiles.. is an
| unwelcome "easy button". One that suffers from doing -less- than it's
| supposed to. It excludes the "local settings" directory. I realised
| that ntuser.ini (one of the files within the profile that isn't copied)
| has written in it an " ExclusionList " , and "local settings" is
| listed. That should explain why "local settings" was excluded/omitted
| from being copied. Though when I cleared that list, it still didn't
| copy 'local settings'. Doesn't matter. That option is a toy option
| anyway. It didn't survive into win xp and presumably not into w2k3.
| "more serious" people, and infact, anybody aware of the pitfalls, would
| use the explorer option.
|
| Another issue I ran into (and resolved), was when Copying profiles,
| (with explorer)..
| I tried deleting folders with those files (within explorer), same
| problem when attempting to delete those files
| it said-
| cannot delete cannot find the specified file
| cannot copy file: the filename you specified is invalid or too long
|
| turned out these files were in local settings\temp and local
| settings\temporary internet files. (or maybe just the (latter)
| "temporary internet files directory").
|
| It wasn't a HDD problem. chkdsk /f and even /r took a while and didn't
| help.
| It was some files with strange filenames which had got in there whilst
| browsing. No doubt the files were probably malicious. They included
| jpgs with very long names, and a ".bin" file. win2k couldn't rename
| them.
| rmdir /s got rid of those directories , no problems. I didn't have to
| recreate new ones because they regenerate on next log in.
|
| So, when copying a profile , best to not use that win2k "easy button".
| But also delete those 2 temp or temporary directories before the copy -
| as oppose to afterwards or not at all. They'er a waste of space, and
| explorer may not be able to copy/delete them e.g. if they contain
| malformed filenames.
| I think it's only "temporary internet files" where the problem might
| lie. The "temp" directory probably doesn't fill up from the internet.
|
| thanks for the insideoe link, i've seen it before, but it has been very
| useful.
|


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