In explorer, you can set 'Show hidden files, folders, and drives', but there is another setting for 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)'. So, do any bigger Windows experts have any explanation for the strange behavior of this folder?

And having used Windows since the 3.1 days, I've NEVER seen anything like this before. This seems to be a 'super' hidden folder for some reason. Has anyone ever heard of this before, or can explain what's going on here? Also note the 'read only' checkbox having a square in it, and the hidden checkbox being checked AND disabled in the very first screenshot above. The weird thing is, I CAN navigate directly to the folder and view its files by directly typing the path in the navigation bar: However, I am NOT able to see this folder for some reason: Here's the thing though, I already have 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' checked, and I'm able to see hidden files and folders. Which is actually another 'clone' of an even older terabyte hard drive that I'd upgraded from previously, and completely forgot about. In this effort to reduce the size of my hard drive before trying to clone it to the SSD to make it bootable, I used the program SpaceSniffer to see if there's any other places on my hard drive that I could pull data from to reduce the size further, and to make my new SSD as 'clean' as possible before the cloning.Īnyways, SpaceSniffer discovered the following folder: So, I bought an SSD to upgrade the speed of my PC, and started transferring extranneous files over to a 10TB portable USB drive that I had.

Spacesniffer portable