system volume information folder

If that does not work, you still have shadow copy. I am sure that you will be able to restore the files.

Thank you guys for helping me with this, it did work to copy the folder so now
I hope to just delete that folder that are stored inside (the system volume folder)

But before that I will do a safe copy to an external device like I do every now and then, but this time when it happened yesterday I suddenly realized it was 5-6 weeks ago since I last made a safety copy, and since I work on it on a daily basis at least 1 h a day it was a lot of work too loose.

Thank you rich46 and
Thank you SIW2

for helping me solving that problem.


you all have a good one
//Ken1

Hello again, the filecopy is completed, the backup is completed, but now not so very surprisingly I cannot delete the folder from system volume information folder ..

I tried to use the "cleanup" drive thingy but didn't do it, tried take ownership and then delete .. didn't do it either .. it's over 300gb so I need the space, otherwise I would just have left it there ..but thats too much space to waste .

I am very surprised that it is possible to copy stuff into that folder and then not get rid of it ??



any ideas anyone?

//Ken1

Johnhoh !

Thanks for helping me.

I'm afraid I don't understand how to use it, I checked the "icacls help" and the link you provided .. but I cannot figure out how to apply it to my problem.

in my D:\system volume information
folder I've managed to copy a folder named "ken1_jukebox" and that's the one I want to get rid off but no luck so far.
full path : D:\System Volume Information\ken1_jukebox

I do not understand why it is so hard to get rid of ? and why is it possible to
copy stuff (by mistake) into the folder when I cannot delete them?

Well I finally got rid of the folder by doing the obvious (which didn't cross my mind until this morning) ..booted into a linux live disk ..and baaam!
history :)

want to thank everybody for taking an interest in my problem ...
would have been more elegant to really solve it ..but I took a shortcut

:)

//Ken1