C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav not found by Everything?

[jeroenp]

`dir C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav` surely shows this file, but searching for chimes.wav finds these:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\CHIMES.WAV"
"C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_73076dd9cf3a9dce\chimes.wav"

This is a Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system that is fully patched running Everything beta Version 1.3.3.658 (x64) as Administrator.

An elevated cmd prompt shows there are 3 chimes.wav files on my system with `dir /s /b c:\chimes.wav`:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MEDIA\CHIMES.WAV
C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_73076dd9cf3a9dce\chimes.wav

Probably a form of EBCAK, but where and what?

--jeroen

[therube]

C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav & C:\Windows\winsxs\...\chimes.wav are almost assuredly links of one another.

Everything will find one, but not others of linked files (non-deterministic AFAIK).

A "work-around" may work for you?
Do a search here for "hard link", should turn up some tips, I believe.

[jeroenp]

It would be most useful if Everything could list all the hard links for a file, or - as an alternative - prefer directories other than WinSxS - as the primary source.

I found one of the hard link posts, and you are indeed right, as it is caused by hard links:

C:\temp>FindLinks C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav

FindLinks v1.0 - Locate file hard links
Copyright (C) 2011 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com

c:\windows\media\chimes.wav
Index: 0x00004EE1
Links: 1

Linking file:
c:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_73076dd9cf3a9dce\chimes.wav

Note that FindLinks runs as a regular user whereas fsutil requires an elevated user.

C:\temp>fsutil hardlink list C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav
\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_73076dd9cf3a9dce\chimes.wav
\Windows\Media\chimes.wav

--jeroen

[therube]

This & this too:

NTFSLinksView
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ntfs_links_view.html

Link Shell Extension (LSE)
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... llext.html