Emergency backup folder


  1. Posts : 544
    Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
       #1

    Emergency backup folder


    Every so often in the last week I find an Emergency Backup folder (always empty) on the desktop. What would cause that? Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Installed any new software?
    Make any changes?

    Run a full antivirus scan
    Dowload and run malwarebytes update and then make a full scan.

    Im leaning toward some software recently installed or changed.
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  3. Posts : 544
    Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
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       #3

    Thanks, richc46. Malwarebytes full scan was negative. I'll have to pay closer attention to when it appears and what I'm doing just before that. I don't think I've installed new software in a while.
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  5. Posts : 544
    Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    The tricky thing is that it doesn't happen all the time. A Google search on "Emergency Recovery folder" shows only items relating to Quark, which I do not have.
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    I dont forget these unqiue problems. I think about it and will post as the thoughts come.
    We have many members, possibly one of them will help, too.
    Last edited by richc46; 11 Nov 2010 at 20:28.
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  7. Posts : 544
    Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
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       #7

    Thanks for your sticktoitiveness (hope that's a word). Yeah, this is a great forum with the wealth of experts here.
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  8. Posts : 6,349
    Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
       #8

    Emergency Recovery Utility

    Folder guard comes up multi times for that name.
    Emergency Recovery folder - Google Search

    Win95 had it. A lot of help.

    Auslogics File undeleter.
    http://www.auslogics.com/en/software...ency-recovery/
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  9. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #9

    Like you I have a dell studio and there was an emergency backup folder on the desktop when I first bought it. I did some research on it, I think Dell Datasafe has an Emergency backup feature that creates this folder during the restore process. It irritated me sufficiently because it was quite large and had files with a .dsb extension which refused to open anyhow. So I just backed it to an external drive and deleted it from the hdd, after that it no longer appeared.
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  10. Posts : 544
    Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Hi, Bill2. My folder keeps reappearing. I did a search on "emergency," but I could find nothing that would lead me to this folder. When the folder appears, it's always empty.

    Task manager doesn't seem to be showing anything unusual.

    I must have updated a program and forgot to check, or uncheck, something. That's all I can think of.

    Any suggestions?
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