OK. So I was tampering with something I probably shouldn't have been. I downloaded World of Warcraft, and after I booted it , it started downloading updates. I have an SSD and HDD and wanted to keep everything on the HDD. The game installed fine on the D: drive, but the blizzard updater/downloader kept automatically putting the updates in the documents public folder. I couldn't figure out how to stop it so I tampered with this program called Directory Linker, tried creating a symlink. I wasn't sure if I did it backwards so I put the folder names in the other way and ended up creating a loop. I'm retarded, I know. I got an error message when I tried opening either folder, so I deleted both. I also uninstalled the game since it said that the directory was changed and couldn't open it anyway. How can I make sure that there are no traces of either folders and all of their contents? I'm pretty sure that I am missing the 8 gigs that it installed for the game and don't know where it could be. I deleted wow from Add/Remove programs, but I don't think that did the trick. Can I search for created symlinks and if so, will that tell me if everything was successfully deleted? LOL I fail.

OK. So I was tampering with something I probably shouldn't have been. I downloaded World of Warcraft, and after I booted it , it started downloading updates. I have an SSD and HDD and wanted to keep everything on the HDD. The game installed fine on the D: drive, but the blizzard updater/downloader kept automatically putting the updates in the documents public folder. I couldn't figure out how to stop it so I tampered with this program called Directory Linker, tried creating a symlink. I wasn't sure if I did it backwards so I put the folder names in the other way and ended up creating a loop. I'm retarded, I know. I got an error message when I tried opening either folder, so I deleted both. I also uninstalled the game since it said that the directory was changed and couldn't open it anyway. How can I make sure that there are no traces of either folders and all of their contents? I'm pretty sure that I am missing the 8 gigs that it installed for the game and don't know where it could be. I deleted wow from Add/Remove programs, but I don't think that did the trick. Can I search for created symlinks and if so, will that tell me if everything was successfully deleted? LOL I fail. Hi You can generate a file that lists all of the Symbolic Links and Junctions on the system. Open an elevated command prompt. Go to Start/All Programs/Accessories, right click the Command Prompt item and select Run As Administrator. In the Command Prompt window type the following. cd\ Press Enter. At C:\> type, dir /aL /s > %userprofile%\Desktop\AllJunctionPoints.txt Press Enter. Note The spaces in the commands. This will place a text file on your Desktop named AllJunctionPoints.txt that lists all of the junction points and symbolic links that appear on the system volume. In that file you will see the Junction Points/Symbolic Links in the following format. Directory of C:\Users\username <date> <Time> <JUNCTION> Application Data [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming] Or <date> <Time> <SYMLINKD> All Users [C:\ProgramData] This shows that the Application Data folder in the Users\username folder is a junction and the junctions target (in brackets) is the Roaming folder. Regards, Ronnie Vernon MVP – Windows Desktop Experience

OK. So I was tampering with something I probably shouldn't have been. I downloaded World of Warcraft, and after I booted it , it started downloading updates. I have an SSD and HDD and wanted to keep everything on the HDD. The game installed fine on the D: drive, but the blizzard updater/downloader kept automatically putting the updates in the documents public folder. I couldn't figure out how to stop it so I tampered with this program called Directory Linker, tried creating a symlink. I wasn't sure if I did it backwards so I put the folder names in the other way and ended up creating a loop. I'm retarded, I know. I got an error message when I tried opening either folder, so I deleted both. I also uninstalled the game since it said that the directory was changed and couldn't open it anyway. How can I make sure that there are no traces of either folders and all of their contents? I'm pretty sure that I am missing the 8 gigs that it installed for the game and don't know where it could be. I deleted wow from Add/Remove programs, but I don't think that did the trick. Can I search for created symlinks and if so, will that tell me if everything was successfully deleted? LOL I fail. Hi You can generate a file that lists all of the Symbolic Links and Junctions on the system. Open an elevated command prompt. Go to Start/All Programs/Accessories, right click the Command Prompt item and select Run As Administrator. In the Command Prompt window type the following. cd\ Press Enter. At C:\> type, dir /aL /s > %userprofile%\Desktop\UserJunctionPoints.txt Press Enter. Note The spaces in the commands. This will place a text file on your Desktop named AllJunctionPoints.txt that lists all of the junction points and symbolic links that appear on the system volume. In that file you will see the Junction Points/Symbolic Links in the following format. Directory of C:\Users\username <date> <Time> <JUNCTION> Application Data [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming] Or <date> <Time> <SYMLINKD> All Users [C:\ProgramData] This shows that the Application Data folder in the Users\username folder is a junction and the junctions target (in brackets) is the Roaming folder. Regards, Ronnie Vernon MVP – Windows Desktop Experience

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