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    I am using Trillian for my IM. I am having my whole Trillian folder synchronized via Live Mesh to the Live Desktop as backup.
    Until last week that worked fine and great.

    Recently though ... I have seen hundreds of iterations of certain folders show up in the Recycle Bin and assume this is due to Live Mesh in some form or way.
    Especially the AIM folder shows up very frequently in the Recycle Bin.
    Over the course of a day I might have this folder 100 - 200 times in the Recylce Bin.

    this is, of course, annoying as hell, as it makes it hard to see when something legitimate is in the recylce bin.


    anyone else have this issue? Solutions?
    Friday, July 25, 2008 6:06 PM

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    Sounds like a bug..  Please submit a bug via Microsoft Connect and attach your logs.

    Thanks,
    Richard
    Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ]
    Monday, July 28, 2008 8:58 PM
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    Ivar,

    I suspect that Trillian and AIM are busy bodies and write to their files on-the-fly so that if their client crashes, you still have your latest up-to-date conversations stored on disk.  The Live Mesh client usually jumps on each of these changes, and when it replaces an older version of a file with a newer version, it moves the older version to the Recycle Bin.  (I am assuming you are seeing this behaviour across two machines running Trillian/AIM.)  You could see if this behaviour still reproduces if only one of the machines uses the IM clients and the other machine's Recycle Bin fills up.  If not, chances are that Trillian and/or AIM is also playing a part in the bin bloat.

    Richard

    Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ]
    Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 PM
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    No. Am only using it on one machine - that's where the error occurs and only since 2-3 days ago.
    Friday, July 25, 2008 10:35 PM
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    THIS HAPPENS EVEN WITH TRILLIAN NOT RUNNING!!!!!!

    Live Mesh (WITHOUT any other program running or touching these folders) creates multiple deleted instances of some of these folders.
    VERY, VERY ANNOYING!
    Monday, July 28, 2008 7:05 PM
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    Sounds like a bug..  Please submit a bug via Microsoft Connect and attach your logs.

    Thanks,
    Richard
    Richard Chung [ Live Mesh ]
    Monday, July 28, 2008 8:58 PM
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    Have you tried turning off Live Mesh and verifying that you're not getting the extra stuff in the Recycle Bin? Just to verify that it is indeed Live Mesh doing this.

    Since you say that there are certain folders doing this, does that imply that you have other folders that are NOT doing this? If so, is there anything unusual or in common with the problem folders - they are used by other services, created by other users on your PC (if you have multiple people using different accounts), are they shared on your network with other users or programs, are they being monitored for changes by other programs, or anything like that?

    What, if any, antivirus/antispyware software are you running?
    Monday, July 28, 2008 9:47 PM