File was created in %userprofile%/documents/

[therube]

(I don't know if this is an Everything issue?)


File was created in to %userprofile%/documents/

somehow, a file i was messing with...
[something] got put into %userprofile%/documents/ ???

%userprofile% is on my system (Windows) volume (E:)

i don't put anything there.
i don't "use" anything there.

i had edited (avidemux) a file, placing cuts into c:/out/
i renamed 1 of those cuts (using Everything)
i touched the file date (using Everything)

after that, after i had cut, after & had renamed & touched
Index Journal (1.min later, or at least at the next minute mark)
shows a File Create, of the original source file, in %userprofile%/Documents/

it is there. it is an actual file (not a link or a ghost or anything like that).
hashes check.

i have no idea how or why?

Everything's "instalDir" is on C: not E:
(a long time back, there was issue with file, or was it ADS, being dropped into instalDir)
my renames & touch dealt with the cut file, not the original
- except - for selecting, Ctrl+C, my original as the source for my touch... <- maybe something there?

source file is NOT a LFN (185 chars total, path+name)

/during/ my rename (single file), there certainly were "too long" message(s),
but i paired it down before finally exiting the rename dialog
(ending c:/out/ name was 220 chars total, so at that point, certainly short enough)

during the rename, i added texts toward the beginning of the name - not caring about
overall length at that point, knowing that i was going to prune content from the end
parts of the filename.

might there be a sized rename buffer, & that buffer overflowed ? before i finally
had the name paired down & something with that cause this oddity, dropping a copy of
the (original) file into %userprofile% ?

(i tried arbitrarily renaming, again, along those lines, but couldn't duplicate...)

might it not have been Everything that did this? might it have been avidemux?
(i tried making/saving those same cuts, again, but couldn't duplicate...)


> Index Journal
> shows a File Create, of the original source file, in %userprofile%/Documents/

file date (modified) is same as source
(created & accessed were set to current)

might Set File Time (#get-date-modified:<#clipboard:>) have, have... ?
attempted to touch something it couldn't, & that caused the drop in %userprofile% ?

(i do all of the above, regularly. the only odd thing is that FileCreate in %userprofile%)

[NotNull]

MAybe avidemux creates a backup in shell:personal ?

[therube]

No.

[void]

Setting the file time in Everything should not cause this issue.


Did you have the original file copied to the clipboard? (eg: Did you copy the file to the clipboard to set the file time in Everything?)

It sounds like the file was pasted somewhere, but ended up being copied to %userprofile%/documents/


Please let me know if your able to reproduce the issue.

[therube]

Did you have the original file copied to the clipboard? (eg: Did you copy the file to the clipboard to set the file time in Everything?)

Yes, #get-date-modified:<#clipboard:>.