Backup4all endlessly expanding recursive directory structure

[sunilmishra]

Hello,

I'm not sure where I have a recursive directory structure, but backup4all is getting trapped in expanding a recursive directory. I have a 1gb backup database. I enumerated the files using wiztree, and it found 200k, while backup4all fails after enumerating 4m.

I opened the database as a sqllite database. And unfortunately I can't read the file paths as the paths are all encoded as numbers. I see these as the longest path entries in the database. I'm going to try and find the specific folder that's failing here, but it might be worthwhile for you to see how this could happen in backup4all. The backup fails after running out of memory, which is to be expected.

select PathCode from TempAutoFolderVersions order by length(PathCode) desc limit 100

1\2\3\87\88\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\2195\1790\2298\2212\2301\2531\2076\2301\1606\2201\2535\2536\2537
1\2\3\87\88\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\2195\1790\2298\2212\2301\2531\2076\2301\1606\2201\2535\2536\2537
1\2\3\87\88\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\272\2195\1790\2298\2212\2301\2531\2076\2301\1606\2201\2535\2536

[sunilmishra]

I have been able to get the exact path by disabling the "Store temporary catalog in memory" option, which results in the sqllite database having all the file and folder blobs. This path is for some reason causing problems:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Application Data

Strange thing is, Backup4All doesn't show this folder in the sources tree, so I can't unselect it. I created a filter for this path. Now backup is working. Hope you're able to make sense of this problem I encountered.

Sunil