ORPHANED FILES

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• orphaned files in a saved Briefcase

  How can I update the orphaned files in the Briefcase of vista on my laptop hard drive? I need to keep these files because they are all my photos. Am running vista & not tech talk savvy. My drinking drive is a usb kensington with ceedo on it. Thank you

  Hello

  If the files are actually orphans that the only hope to recover would be to make some sort of data recovery using 3 third party software.

  Note: Using third-party software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third-party software can be solved. Software using third party is at your own risk.

  There is a Microsoft article that treats the orphaned files and that you can do to attempt to recover: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457122.aspx

  I suggest you consult a service of recovery of the aid.

• When I schedule a check disk finds it always 7 orphaned files but it can never their difficulty, it said 0 unindexed files recovered.

  When I schedule a check disk finds it always 7 orphaned files but it can never their difficulty, it said 0 unindexed files recovered. shoud I'm worried about this? Thank you

  Hello

   
  If your computer works well and has all the problems so worry not attached files that pointed the disk check

• Files and orphaned files

  Hello

  Referring to of LucD 'orphan files and folders - Spring cleaning. "

  http://www.lucd.info/2011/04/25/orphaned-files-and-folders-spring-cleaning/

  Is it possible to also declare the size of the ophaned inside a folder an orphan data, I would like to get the "size" total data in an orphan file, only the "unfunded size' (length) if possible? If the total size of the data in a folder an orphan makes more difficult a list of each file/size would also work well.

  I would use it purely for reporting for other people to action if the option delete is not necessary.

  Thank you very much

  Martin

  If you only want the total size of the files in the folders that can be made.

  Try this

  function Remove-OrphanedData {
  <#
  .SYNOPSIS   Remove orphaned folders and VMDK files.DESCRIPTION   The function searches orphaned folders and VMDK files   on one or more datastores and reports its findings.
     Optionally the function removes  the orphaned folders   and VMDK files.NOTES   Author:  Luc Dekens.PARAMETER Datastore   One or more datastores.
     The default is to investigate all shared VMFS datastores.PARAMETER Delete   A switch that indicates if you want to remove the folders   and VMDK files.EXAMPLE   PS> Remove-OrphanedData.EXAMPLE  PS> Get-Datastore ds* | Remove-OrphanedData.EXAMPLE  PS> Remove-OrphanedData -Datastore $ds -Delete#>
  
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
      [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
      [PSObject[]]$Datastore,    [switch]$Delete  )
  
    begin{
      $fldList = @{}
      $hdList = @{}
  
      $fileMgr = Get-View FileManager  }
  
    process{
      if(!$Datastore){
        $Datastore = Get-Datastore    }
      foreach($ds in $Datastore){
        if($ds.GetType().Name -eq "String"){
          $ds = Get-Datastore -Name $ds      }
        if($ds.Type -eq "VMFS" -and $ds.ExtensionData.Summary.MultipleHostAccess){
          Get-VM -Datastore $ds | %{
            $_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where{"diskDescriptor","diskExtent" -contains $_.Type} | %{
              $fldList[$_.Name.Split('/')[0]] = $_.Name            $hdList[$_.Name] = $_.Name          }
          }
          Get-Template | where {$_.DatastoreIdList -contains $ds.Id} | %{
            $_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where{"diskDescriptor","diskExtent" -contains $_.Type} | %{
              $fldList[$_.Name.Split('/')[0]] = $_.Name            $hdList[$_.Name] = $_.Name          }
          }
  
          $dc = $ds.Datacenter.Extensiondata
          $flags = New-Object VMware.Vim.FileQueryFlags        $flags.FileSize = $true        $flags.FileType = $true
          $disk = New-Object VMware.Vim.VmDiskFileQuery        $disk.details = New-Object VMware.Vim.VmDiskFileQueryFlags        $disk.details.capacityKb = $true        $disk.details.diskExtents = $true        $disk.details.diskType = $true        $disk.details.thin = $true
          $searchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec        $searchSpec.details = $flags        $searchSpec.Query += $disk        $searchSpec.sortFoldersFirst = $true
          $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.ExtensionData.browser        $rootPath = "[" + $ds.Name + "]"        $searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($rootPath, $searchSpec)
          foreach($folder in $searchResult){
            if($fldList.ContainsKey($folder.FolderPath.TrimEnd('/'))){
              foreach ($file in $folder.File){
                if(!$hdList.ContainsKey($folder.FolderPath + $file.Path)){
                  New-Object PSObject -Property @{
                    Folder = $folder.FolderPath                  Name = $file.Path                  Size = $file.FileSize                  CapacityKB = $file.CapacityKb                  Thin = $file.Thin                  Extents = [string]::Join(',',($file.DiskExtents | %{$_}))
                  }
                  if($Delete){
                    $dsBrowser.DeleteFile($folder.FolderPath + $file.Path)
                  }
                }
              }
            }
            elseif($folder.File | where {"cos.vmdk","esxconsole.vmdk" -notcontains $_.Path}){
              New-Object PSObject -Property @{
                Folder = $folder.FolderPath              Name = $null              Size = &{
                  $dsName,$folderName = $Folder.FolderPath.Split(']')
                  $dsName = $dsName.Trim('[ ')
                  $folderName = $folderName.Trim(' ')
                  New-PSDrive -Name DSTemp -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root "\" -Datastore (Get-Datastore -Name $dsName) | Out-Null                Push-Location -Path "DSTemp:\$folderName"                Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum |                Select -ExpandProperty Sum                Pop-Location                Remove-PSDrive -Name DSTemp -Confirm:$false | Out-Null              }
                CapacityKB = $null              Thin = $null              Extents = $null            }
              if($Delete){
                $fileMgr.DeleteDatastoreFile($folder.FolderPath,$dc.MoRef)
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  
  Remove-OrphanedData -Datastore MyDS 
  

• Customize report orphaned files?

  DW CS6 using (Windows 7 if that makes a difference) if we can customize a report of broken file link/orphan somehow? I searched around for this for a while and haven't found anything, so I guess not, but...

  The problem:

  We use Adobe Contribute with activated restorations so it will create strings of files which contain "_bak" when a page is posted on our development server. When you generate a report looking for orphaned files, I have to weed by the thousands (approximately 10,000 rows in an Excel file) of these false orphans ending up with a list of real orphans. Is there a way to search the site and ignore all files/folders with _bak in the chain?

  Thank you!

  Excel is a much more powerful than DW program, it can be managed to purge the premises.

  For example, a custom filter to see ONLY the rows containing BAK.

  Select and then delete the visible lines.

• VMDK-Orphane files

  I found this good scenario of Orphane files. The report comes out with drive sizes, but it seems to be in bits. How to report the size in GB? I remember seeing a statement who did the calculation, but can not remember

  Here is the script

  ==========================================================================================

  #Use suite script to find orphaned files in your vmware env...

  #
  # Purpose: List all orphans vmdk on all data stores in the VC
  # Version: 1.1
  # Author: PRWTOVRO'HJA van Bokhoven
  # Changes: LucD

  $arrayVC = @("MYVC")
  $report = @)

  foreach ($strVC to $arrayVC)
  {
  SE connect-VIServer $strVC
  $arrUsedDisks = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine. % {$_. Page layout} | % {$_. Disc} | % {$_. DiskFile}
  $arrDS = get-Datastore. Sort-Object-property name
  foreach ($strDatastore to $arrDS)
  {
  Write-Host $strDatastore.Name
  $ds = get-Datastore-name $strDatastore.Name | % {Get-view $_.} ID}
  $fileQueryFlags = new-Object VMware.Vim.FileQueryFlags
  $fileQueryFlags.FileSize = $true
  $fileQueryFlags.FileType = $true
  $fileQueryFlags.Modification = $true
  $searchSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec
  $searchSpec.details = $fileQueryFlags
  $searchSpec.matchPattern = '*.vmdk.
  $searchSpec.sortFoldersFirst = $true
  $dsBrowser = get-view $ds.browser
  $rootPath = ' [' + $ds.summary.Name + "]".

  #Workaround for vSphere 4 fileOwner bug
  If {($dsBrowser.Client.Version-eq «Vim4»)}
  $searchSpec = [VMware.Vim.VIConvert]: ToVim4 ($searchSpec)
  $searchSpec.details.fileOwnerSpecified = $true
  $dsBrowserMoRef = [VMware.Vim.VIConvert]: ToVim4($dsBrowser.MoRef);
  $searchTaskMoRef = $dsBrowser.Client.VimService.SearchDatastoreSubFolders_Task ($dsBrowserMoRef, $rootPath, $searchSpec)
  $searchResult = [VMware.Vim.VIConvert]: ToVim ($dsBrowser.WaitForTask([VMware.Vim.VIConvert]::ToVim($searchTaskMoRef)))))
  } else {}
  $searchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders ($rootPath, $searchSpec)
  }

  foreach ($folder in $searchResult)
  {
  foreach ($fileResult in $folder. File)
  {
  If ($fileResult.Path)
  {
  If (-not ($arrUsedDisks - contains ($folder.) FolderPath + $fileResult.Path))) {}
  $row = "" | Select the path, file size, ModDate, DS, host
  $row. DS = $strDatastore.Name
  $row. Path = $folder. FolderPath
  $row. File = $fileResult.Path
  $row. Size = $fileResult.FileSize
  $row. ModDate = $fileResult.Modification
  $row. Host = (Get-view $ds. Host [0]. Key). Name
  $report += $row
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }
  # Disconnect the session of VC
  disconnect-viserver-confirm: $false
  }

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\VMDK-orphaned_west.csv" - noTypeInformation

  ===========================================================================

  Thank you

  Everett

  Hello, eaalvare-

  This value is in bytes, you can simply divide by "1 GB" to convert to GB.  The original line

  $row.Size = $fileResult.FileSize  ## the value in bytes
  

  becomes

  ## give the value in GB, rounded to one (1) decimal point$row.Size =[Math]::Round(($fileResult.FileSize / 1GB), 1)
  

  I added the [Math]: Round() call it round to one decimal place.  Enjoy

• Cannot remove orphaned files

  If you know how this works and it should be simple. I ran check all links to the site. I pointed out the orphaned files on the Link Checker tab. There are many of them - plus 6 000. I want to delete these files. I select them all and press the button Delete, nothing happens. I select a bit and try the same thing. I try with both buttons remove and cmd-delete (which works in the Mac Finder). I even try to check to see if there is a delete option under the right button of the mouse.  Still nothing. (unless somehow, these files are deleted invisible but always appear on the list?) Shouldn't the name of the file disappear from the list when they are deleted?) I checked my keyboard and the delete button works.  Any ideas what is happening? Any other method can I use to remove these files?

  I suggest you re-create your cache.

  You will find in the menus at the top.

  Site > advanced > recreate Site Cache

• DW * query - remove orphaned files

  Is it possible to get DW8 to search for orphaned files in a site (IE, PDF files and image files that are no longer tied to any of the pages)? I have a couple of big files on a site that I inherited, and I want to make some fairly significant storage upward.
  
  TIA

  at the level of the site link check under the Site menu.

  Difficulty of broken links, and then change the drop-down menu in the results for "orphaned files" window

  Note-dw only checks the links for the types it understands. links established with js or
  SWF or other methods will show as orphan files even if it is in service.

• Instant orphaned files - need to recover data on the basic disk

  Hello

  I'm sure this has been asked several times before, but how merge content from an instant orphan to the basic disk?

  Reading over there seem to be several different methods to do so.

  I have a virtual machine with three RDM, the virtual machine is running at the wide base VMDK disks but there is a single snapshot file associated with each base VMDK, snapshots do not appear in the Snapshot Manager.

  I tried to change the snapshot. The VMDK files and change the parent CIDs for the basic disk, but still not instant show in the Snapshot Manager.

  Is the best way to stop the virtual machine, remove the inventory and then add it to the inventory, I don't see the shots if the parent CID is correct?

  What is a better method?

  2. turn off then turn off the virtual machine (if it is not already off). Stop the current virtual machine with any Active snapshots.

  3. once the virtual machine is completely turned off, create a unique snapshot of the virtual machine and do not feed upward after this step.

  4 browse your data store for the virtual machine and look for the numbers you hard files. Instant latest should only be a few megabytes, and you want one that is just before that.

  5. go to the command line console and edit the .vmx for your virtual machine in the container for data store. Looking for a similar article to the following for each of your virtual disks.
  
scsi0:0.present = "true"
scsi0:0.fileName = "???-00002.vmdk"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

  You want to change the "scsi0:0.fileName =" section under the same file name that you found in step 4. You will need to repeat this in the file for each virtual disk on your VM.
  Save the .vmx file, overwriting the original.

  6. now, it will be a long process, if the hard files are large (more than 20 concerts) and can last several hours. During this process, you may lose connectivity to your ESX Server on the client of the infrastructure. What you need to do is run the below command from within the container to store the virtual machine data.
  
vmware-cmd <your .vmx file> removesnapshots


  7. once the previous step is complete, check your VM settings in client infrastructure and check that your virtual disks are now pointing to the original hard file (does not contain de-00001 etc.). If everything was successful, you should be able to power to the top of your VM.

  8. once the virtual machine is running and check the operation, you can remove the last numbered - 0000x.vmdk that was created from your snapshot in the third stage (should only be a few megabytes). This file must have been ignored by the instant withdrawal because you have changed the .vmx file.

  Question I have is if the basic disk has been changed today I lose all changes today when merging the snapshots (which have not been written to since 18:00 yesterday)- or will be the basic disk back to 18:00 yesterday and lose all changes today?

  If you need to extract data from instant orphans, you know that you can NOT do without altering the current state
  new files from today will still be there - but they are not referenced in the MFT and other pieces are replaced by old data of the orphan snapshot
  If you must do this with a backup...

  or - possibly use a snashot of the RDM, as it is now...

  in any case – which gives good advice is almost impossible without sitting in front of the case

• post in orphaned files

  Hello

  I send in folders in my file Library/Mail/V2/boxes to the letters do not appear in the mail.

  How to rebuild Mail so the files that I see in the library can be seen in the Mail?

  Thank you very much

  Peg

  Try to rebuild the mailbox.

  Rebuild the mailbox

  If this does not work, try re-indexing of mailboxes mailbox. This can take some time if you have a lot of mail.

  REINDEX messages

• Orphaned files of vocation.  How to?

  We have a VM Linux who, for various reasons, have multiple iSCSI disks added and removed as a raw device mapped drives.  I now have a bunch of files * rdmp.vmdk which is no longer exist, but have problems with vMotion because of them.  Can I just delete the file?  I need to change a configuration file or a guest first stop?

  Thank you

  Anand

  These files are simple "proxy" for the RDM disks.

  You can delete them without problem (if no VM is their use).

  André

• Check orphaned vmdk files are not used before deleting

  Hi all

  I'm working on a site and after looking through the vSphere platform, it came to light that there are THOUSANDS (well more than 10,000) of orphaned VMDK files, it seems that there is a bug in the backup solution (you think).

  In any case I was hoping someone could help me please do you know if there is a way to confirm that a vmdk is certainly not necessary, the tools I've used to identify the orphaned VMDK are the script here practically Jason: orphaned VMDK files and RV tools (health tab).

  What I need to do now is to automate the removal of the VMDK if possible, but I need to run a test of consistency first to ensure that the files are actually orphans.

  Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

  Hello

  I can give you only a few rough concepts and advice because I do not know the details.

  First, he yells for PowerCLI, below, you will get a few commands. If you are not familiar with PowerCLI/Powershell I highly recommend to get a grip on it.

  Second, I'll assume that orphaned files = unused files. If this isn't the case, you can rename/move file instead of delete and wait as these phone calls / tickets

  Thirdly, since we will work on files on data warehouses, we will use "vmstores" PSDrive. Get-PSdrive cmdlet will give you all the readers, that you, one of them is vmstores

  C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSDrive
  
  Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root                                                                                                                   CurrentLocation
  ----           ---------     --------- --------      ----                                                                                                                   ---------------
  Alias                                  Alias
  C                  52,39         44,97 FileSystem    C:\                                                                                                                   Windows\system32
  Cert                                   Certificate   \
  D                 218,60        149,80 FileSystem    D:\
  E                                      FileSystem    E:\
  Env                                    Environment
  Function                               Function
  HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  Variable                               Variable
  vi                                     VimInventory  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vis                                    VimInventory  \
  vmstore                                VimDatastore  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vmstores                               VimDatastore  \
  WSMan                                  WSMan
  

  To get your typical data warehouse 'cd ":

  CD vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster

  On each level, you can do 'ls' or 'cmd '. Tab completion works on everything in order to use it

  From now on, all depends on what you already have and what it looks like. These files have a naming pattern names containing the name of the virtual machine or other information ("backup", "tmp" etc.)? You have these names stored somewhere? In text or csv file?

  I guess you have the list of files in the text file. So much more simple method would be to be scan all data warehouses and all files. As you can imagine it is very time and resource consumption, so not recommended to all

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  cd vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
  #we're recursivly looking for file stored in $_ special variable (current object)
  $deleteme = Get-ChildItem $_ -Recurse
  #deleting the file
  Remove-Item $deleteme.PSPath
  }
  

  If the file names that you already can somehow correspond directly to the VM, then we could use a more intelligent approach.

  Let's say we have the testVM001 - bak003.vmdk and VMname file is testVM001. We can remove all characters after the 9th tank and then work on it:

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
      #getting VM name
      $vmname = $_.Remove(9)
      #getting VM path
      $vmpath = (Get-VM -Name $vmname |Get-Datastore).DatastoreBrowserPath
      #combining full path
      $fullpath = $vmpath + "\" + $vmname
      cd $fullpath
      #deleting the file
      Remove-Item ./$_
  }
  

  These are simple ideas, it could be useful.

• The files are not orphans

  Run "Check links to the site level" and got loads of orphaned files.

  These, in fact, is no orphaned files.

  There are no spaces in file names.

  Its a site HTML simple.

  Links to it are not in any other script.

  im not using linux.

  They are called correctly when browsing.

  Am I missing something?

  Here is the link to the parent page.

  http://www.drivinglessonspreston.NET/BestDrivingInstructorInPrestonBalpreet.htm

  Looks like a lot of your links are absolute paths.

  Files may appear to be orphaned of DW, because the paths point to the internet, no other files in the local site folder.

• Search duplicate files which are not linked to Active Folders

  I have several duplicates in my iTunes. Most of the duplicates is more related to active records. I can find how to find duplicates and I can find how to remove them, but there is no sort option that detects files that are not in my current records.

  I don't know what you mean by "linked to active records. Do you mean that you have files in folders that are not related to iTunes, or your library entries that are not related to the files?

  iTunes can create duplicates if the same content is added several times from outside the media folder when it is about to make copies of everything that is added to the library, or is added from an external drive that hosts the press kit that was disconnected during the launch of iTunes.

  Official notice of Apple on the duplicates is here: find and remove duplicates in your iTunes library. This is a manual process and article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as the lost coast and membership of playlist, or sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library as well as a removal and recycling the file will break all the others.

  Use MAJ > display > show items to reproduce exactly to display the duplicates because it is normally a selection more useful. You must manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sort the list by Date added can make easier select appropriate tracks, but it works better when executed immediately after the dupes were created.  If you have several entries in iTunes connected to a same file on the disk hard then don't not send to trash.

  Use my DeDuper script (Windows only) If you are not sure, do not want to do it by hand, or want to maintain ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this background thread , this post for detailed instructions and Please take note of the warning to back up your library before deduping.

  (If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to temporarily view or CTRL + B to keep displayed.)

  The latest version of the script can put away the dead links as long as there is at least a double live to merge his stats and membership of the playlist and must deal wisely when the same file has been added through multiple paths.

  In its current form the script processes only the files that are added to the library. If you have orphaned files in the media folder these could be added to the library before you start deduping.

  TT2

• How can I determine what files given File Record Segments Point to?

  I'm under NTFS, and I have a volume of 2 TB with a lot of files that it contains.  Fortunately, I cloned the entire volume to another volume of 2 TB on occasion (using WinDD, basically an exact bit-by-bit image of the entire 2 TB).  Unfortunately, the volume, I used to work failed, and my last clone was old enough.  To remedy this, I switched to Linux and ddrescue to get as many recovered defective disc I have.  When I finally gave up the recovery (after weeks, but it seemed that it would take years to get a lot more value), I stayed with 1.3MiB evil space in two or three sections of the volume, especially in the 1kiB sections (generally there was 2 bad sectors, followed by a number of sectors well followed by 2 more bad sectors etc.).  The volume had clusters of 64 Kio, which left still potentially a lot of corruption.  After all this, I took the volume newly cloned (from bad disk) back to windows and ran chkdsk.  He finds 1 segment of corrupted file, 336 segments of the orphan file and 440 bad index entries.  So he deleted all those (which included about 6 files that moved to the chkdsk finds the file, the rest was individual files which are now gone).  I do not know what files have disappeared, but I know that most of the lost files are probably on my good old clone of the volume.  Comparing volumes per-folder basis, would be a nightmare, and I suppose cannot easily use a tool (or find a free) because of the number of changes that have not been saved.  I have the registered chkdsk log so I can sort through this.  Can someone tell me a good way to know what files the segments to record file deleted perpendicularly on the volume where they have not been removed?  For example, here are two chkdsk log records:

  Delete a corrupt file record segment 1107859.

  Delete a 1069930 an orphan file record segment.

  Since I know specifically what segment to save file, I need to look on the good clone, can I somehow extract file information about the MFT file segment numbers?

  Notice that I must not use XP to do, which is be where the volume has been created and repaired.

  Well, I finally had the chance to try some Linux ntfs-based utilities.  I'm not sure they are NTFS - 3g, important or ntfsutils, but all those who have a favorite linux distribution should be able to fire and get the information I needed easily.  The numbers are numbers of inodes, and two orders were very useful.  It has provided what I need:

  ntfscluster - I

  It included the full path to the file in question and very little information.  This command has provided a lot of information that I didn't need:

  NTFSInfo-i

  He did not provide the path, but provide the number of inode in the directory parent, so you can reverse engineer the path using this command again and again.