Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus:
> > > Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
> > > installation:
> > > As in:
> > > /consoleX/%SystemDrive%
>
> > I doubt it is due to a cygwin program.
> > "consoleX" does not appear in the package search
> > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
>
> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
> whatever.)
> The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
> I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..
> Fergus

I will bet a Windows Programs as on CMD

  C:\Users\Marco>echo %SystemDrive%
  C:

so %SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches
is likely C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches



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