I have 4 identical drives, each 3TB, pooled under Drivepool on Windows 10. All pool files are duplicated.
There is a "stuck" nested folder structure which is duplicated on two of the drives, and which appears in the Drivepool virtual disk directory (Drive I:, in my case.). The stuck folders cannot be deleted under Windows or within the DrivePool virtual disk.
The folder structure is 10 levels deep culminating in "shellext ". In other words "M:\fixme\T2\T3\T4\....T9\shellext ". I cannot recall how I managed to create this originally, but after shortening all the subfolder names and trying every Windows trick on the Internet, I was unsuccessful at deleting it. There is a space appended to "shellext " that is presumably preventing deletion, and all attempts to rename this file/folder have failed.
The one trick that worked was booting a live Linux disk and deleting the duplicated structures on disks M: and J: where I found them. However, after rebooting to Windows, the deleted items are restored after a period of time, and I'm back where I started. When I try to delete the folders directly or in DrivePool, the error message is (and always has been) "Could not find this item."
Is DrivePool contributing to this problem, or causing the restoration of the deleted folder structure? Any ideas on how to fix? The problem isn't fatal, but it is an annoyance.
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