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I beg you, please don't back up that secret directory full of photos!
Never do tech support for your mates. You learn too much about their lives
11 Mar 2016 - Simon Sharwood

On-Call: Welcome to Friday and to On-Call, our weekly regurgitation of readers' real-life tales getting stuff done in the field.

This week, a tale of domestic rapture from reader “Adam” who was once asked to sort out a friend's slow-running Windows PC.

Adam had his mate bring the PC over, then got to work booting it from a Linux disk so he could rummage around properly. Before long it was apparent that a trojan or two had made their way onto the Windows machine, making a wipe-and-rebuild the only answer.

So Adam started moving files off the PC to his own NAS, for later restoration. During that process he noted down the number of directories and files he'd have to work with.

Once that was done, Adam checked all the files had made it across to the NAS. Which was when he noticed that more files and directories had made the journey from PC to NAS. A bit of investigation showed why: Adam's mate had a hidden directory and once Adam looked at it he couldn't forget it....

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/11/you_idonti_want_a_backup_of_that_secret_directory_does_your_wife_agree/