They should check if an infinite loop is about to happen. The BackupAssist tech person promised to take it up with development.



>The problem lies in MS backup prg which backup assist calls, remember that backup assist is only an easy to use interface overlay on top of MS's backup system.
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>I suppose they could check for the fact that an endless recursion is going to occur, but MS backup should know that the directory is a backup target and not try to back it up, endlessly.
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>>>>I am using BackupAssist backup software, which is very good by the way.
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>>>>By mistake I told BackupAssist to create a mirror backup of a directory within the original directory. This resulted in an infinite loop that blew up when the maximum path length was eventually reached. Now this chain of directory within directory cannot be deleted using Windows Explorer.
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>>>>Is there another way to delete it that anyone knows about?
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>>>What was the folder name and how deep did it nest? IAC I didn't think there's a limit in the depth of nesting - only on the total length of the path name. If that's the case then the result is probably only marginally over the limit - try renaming the top level created folder to something shorter.....
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>>>But if BackupAssist didn't trap for this I'm not sure I'd call it a good product :-}
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>>It has worked well otherwise, but this is a serious defect.