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Folder and Recovery Restored Files Have Wrong Extension

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Restoring files and folders from a Backup of Files and Folders is writing files with added extension ~?????.  Do I have to go and remove this added extension for the files to work?

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Legend
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Jim, welcome to these public User Forums.

You are looking at temporary files created during the restore process which are normally all removed automatically when that restore process is allowed to run to a successful conclusion.

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Steve Smith wrote:

Jim, welcome to these public User Forums.

You are looking at temporary files created during the restore process which are normally all removed automatically when that restore process is allowed to run to a successful conclusion.

Apparently, at some time in the past, restore did not run to a successful conclusion. What is the best way to remove those files?

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Ron, the best way to check for these incomplete restore files is as follows:

Open a Command prompt window.

Change to the drive where the files are likely to to located then type the command:

dir *.???~???????? /s

Example:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1413]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\System32>d:

D:\>dir *.???~???????? /s
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 6946-4AF3
File Not Found

D:\>

If you do find any files, then you can change dir to del to delete them but please be careful that you are deleting the correct files!

*.???~????????  should only match with the files shown in the screen image earlier in this topic, i.e. #20602.lnk~1M7HTR0A where the original file is #20602.lnk but has been appended by the ~1M7HTR0A extra characters hence all the ???? in the file mask to match such characters.