[Box Backup] Windows 7 special folder access

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Achim,

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Achim J. Latz wrote:
> On 30/09/2011 01:01, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Achim J. Latz wrote:
>> 
>>> Any idea what could be the cause for this behaviour?
>> 
>> It might well be junction points. Apparently Windows 7 uses these to 
>> make the new folder locations "appear" in the old positions for 
>> backwards compatibility. I did add a specific check for these as part 
>> of the VSS work, but this hasn't made it into an officially released 
>> client yet, so you might like to try the latest VSS build to see if 
>> that works better for you. If not, I'll try to debug it.
>
> I sent you two PM on 9 and 14 September with the debug info for the 
> latest VSS preview (R2993). Did you have a chance to look at that?

Thanks for reminding me. I did spend several hours trying to make sense of 
the crash conditions. However I did not succeed. It appears that a 
variable is NULL that has no business being NULL in that situation. I 
simply cannot work out how that could have happened.

Do you have any way to reproduce the situation in a way that I can have 
access to, for example supervised remote access to a machine where I can 
install Visual Studio using VNC, or can you reproduce it on a relatively 
clean virtual machine?

Cheers, Chris.
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