Emergency backup folder

[gogreen]

Every so often in the last week I find an Emergency Backup folder (always empty) on the desktop. What would cause that? Thanks.

 

[richc46]

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.

 

[gogreen]

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.

 

[richc46]

Art, see if doing a clean boot helps resolve the problem
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

 

[gogreen]

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.

 

[richc46]

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.

 

[gogreen]

Thanks for your sticktoitiveness (hope that's a word). Yeah, this is a great forum with the wealth of experts here.

 

[Hopalong X]

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/emergency-recovery/

 

[Bill2]

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.

 

[gogreen]

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?