I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 531. My HDD is partitioned
into C and D drives, with D being a small partitonn where I keep back-up
copies of files I don't want to lose should I need to reinstall or have
other problems on my C drive.

Lately, when I open up my user profile or whatever it's called where the
greenisf folders labeled Music, Videos, etc. are located, I find 2 of these
labeled Videos. One of them points to the actual location of my video
files, and the other points to an empty folder on my D drive named
archive_db.

If I delete the archive_db older on my D drive and the Videos folder that
points to it all goes well, but eventually both folders reappear. No
measurable amount of HDD space is taken up, but this is really getting to be
annoying. Google has numerous references to archive_db, but none seem to
relate to my situation.

Any suggestions, abybody?

Thanx,

Buddha

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:30:09 -0700, "Tom Ponta" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 531. My HDD is partitioned
>into C and D drives, with D being a small partitonn where I keep back-up
>copies of files I don't want to lose should I need to reinstall or have
>other problems on my C drive.
>
>Lately, when I open up my user profile or whatever it's called where the
>greenisf folders labeled Music, Videos, etc. are located, I find 2 of these
>labeled Videos. One of them points to the actual location of my video
>files, and the other points to an empty folder on my D drive named
>archive_db.
>
>If I delete the archive_db older on my D drive and the Videos folder that
>points to it all goes well, but eventually both folders reappear. No
>measurable amount of HDD space is taken up, but this is really getting to be
>annoying. Google has numerous references to archive_db, but none seem to
>relate to my situation.
>
>Any suggestions, abybody?
>
>Thanx,
>
>Buddha

If you`ve backed up to a partition and the hard drive goes , you`ve
lost your data/files .

Yeah, I know that. I only have the files there to guard against the
occasional Vista foul-up that requires reinstalling the OS. I dislike Vista
intensely and only use it because it came on my system, and this weird
method of storing files is only one of many reasons. I didn't think it was
even possible to have more than one folder with the same name.

Buddha

"Jim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:30:09 -0700, "Tom Ponta" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 531. My HDD is partitioned
>>into C and D drives, with D being a small partitonn where I keep back-up
>>copies of files I don't want to lose should I need to reinstall or have
>>other problems on my C drive.
>>
>>Lately, when I open up my user profile or whatever it's called where the
>>greenisf folders labeled Music, Videos, etc. are located, I find 2 of
>>these
>>labeled Videos. One of them points to the actual location of my video
>>files, and the other points to an empty folder on my D drive named
>>archive_db.
>>
>>If I delete the archive_db older on my D drive and the Videos folder that
>>points to it all goes well, but eventually both folders reappear. No
>>measurable amount of HDD space is taken up, but this is really getting to
>>be
>>annoying. Google has numerous references to archive_db, but none seem to
>>relate to my situation.
>>
>>Any suggestions, abybody?
>>
>>Thanx,
>>
>>Buddha
>
> If you`ve backed up to a partition and the hard drive goes , you`ve
> lost your data/files .

Tom Ponta wrote:
> I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 531. My HDD is
> partitioned into C and D drives, with D being a small partitonn
> where I keep back-up copies of files I don't want to lose should I
> need to reinstall or have other problems on my C drive.
>
> Lately, when I open up my user profile or whatever it's called
> where the greenisf folders labeled Music, Videos, etc. are located,
> I find 2 of these labeled Videos. One of them points to the actual
> location of my video files, and the other points to an empty folder
> on my D drive named archive_db.
>
> If I delete the archive_db older on my D drive and the Videos
> folder that points to it all goes well, but eventually both folders
> reappear. No measurable amount of HDD space is taken up, but this
> is really getting to be annoying. Google has numerous references
> to archive_db, but none seem to relate to my situation.
>
> Any suggestions, abybody?

- Purchase Windows 7 Upgrade.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579(WS.10).aspx -->
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-713-_-Product

- Get an external backup method going. Seagate Replica is esimple,
inexpensive and fully functional in all ways (restore versions of files,
bare-metal restore, etc.)

- Figure out what third party program is making the archive_db folder. What
programs do you have installed that manipulate video?

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