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#3 Problems with Folder Redirection - infinite loop

Julian Garcia — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:26:16 -0000

Wow, I can't believe that nobody has responded to this problem since 2007. I'm having the same problem. I think it's a wrong setting, but I don't know what to look for to change it.

#6 Apparent Memory Leak

KevinCoffeeJunkie — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:50:26 -0000

My machines exhibit this behaviour too, however the described conditions do NOT occur if the delete method is "Delete directly and don't ask any questions (Old RED mode)". I haven't tested the other modes but thought I should mention this as it may help with killing this annoying bug.

ignore not working correctly

SlechtValk — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:59:21 -0000

using version 2.2.0.0 on win7 ultimate x64

when i scan some folder and click one of the subfolders and select "add to ignore list" the full folder path gets added (like "C:\somefolder\somesubfolder"
but the folder is NOT getting ignored, also not after a rescan... when removing everything except for the deepest folder name (in this case "somesubfolder") it works like expected...
but this way the ignore-menu-option is useless... if you have to manually edit it anyway...

also added ignores are not saved on exit when the full path is given...

Apparent Memory Leak

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:38:00 -0000

In Windows 7 when scanning a large directory tree of empty directories (I had over 22,000) the program works as expected until I tell RED (2.2.0.0) to delete folders. As it deletes folders its memory size (in RAM as reported by Task Manager) increases. For example, on the present run it has deleted 1000 folders but it showing a RAM use of 2 GB!

Problems with Windows Vista

Jonas John — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:48:51 -0000

Message from Lorenzo (by email):

i have some problems with RED on windows vista. it is not able to delete some folders, it appears like the attached image.

Better support for entire drive scans

Jonas John — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:40:08 -0000

User message from Jay:

Nice Program. Very helpful. I had exceptions when running at the drive level. Have a great day!

Note to myself:

Test and support full disk scanning much more than before. Because currently RED was not supposed to scan the whole hard-drive...

Problems with Folder Redirection - infinite loop

Jonas John — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:09:07 -0000

Submitted by user Raul:

RED does not detects the folders that have been redirected by the Folder Redirection feature of windows vista, and enters in an infinite loop. Is there any way to solve this problem ?

Another problem with locked folders

Jonas John — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:55:39 -0000

User feedback:

On my PC are a couple of directories that I am unable to remove. When I look at the properties they seem empty, zero length. And when deleteing them, they do not disappear. Your program does not show them as "empty".

Any thoughts on what I can do to remove them?

Exception occures when trying to access locked folders.

Jonas John — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:47:57 -0000

Exception message submitted by user:

See the end of this message for details on invoking

just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'CUT' is denied.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

at System.IO.FileInfo.Delete()

at RED2.fMain.CleanupFolder(DirectoryInfo _StartFolder)

at RED2.fMain.SecureDelete(DirectoryInfo Folder)

at RED2.fMain.btnDelete_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************

mscorlib

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll

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RED2

Assembly Version: 2.1.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.1.0.0

CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Remove%20Empty%20Directories/RED2.exe

----------------------------------------

System.Windows.Forms

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

----------------------------------------

System

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Drawing

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Xml

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

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************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.

For example:

<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />

</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.