Windows 10: What is the intended use for found.000 folders left on my drive after chkdsk?

I've been having some issues and chkdsk is creating found.xxx folders.My question is: what is the designed purpose of these folders? I don't believe they are simply meant to sit there until a power user un-hides them, changes ownership on them, and sorts through them. I don't believe that would be the way someone would program an OS. It isn't sustainable, for one thing, as they will take up more and more space over time.What does MS expect to be done with them? Does another utility on the OS use them?I'm asking because the folders are set with permissions and attributes to hide them from t

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Invisible found.000 folder after chkdsk

I ran a chkdsk because I downloaded some files with some apparently corrupt data.

I want to know the names of these files so I Can re-download okay versions.

A chkdsk puts the corrupt ones in a 'lost and found': "Lost and found is located at \found.000"

The folder exists in D:, but cannot be seen even in explorer, with hidden folders shown.

When visiting D:\FOUND.000 via explorer I get the folder is not accessible. Access is denied.

I can view the folder dir via cmd with admin privileges, there are some files I was able to recover but I want to get hold of the whole folder and using cmd gives a dead end when I get these . dirs:

Directory of D:\found.000\dir0000.chk

21/07/17 23:38 <DIR> .

21/07/17 23:38 <DIR> ..

How can I access the folder when windows is hiding it further?

 

User.000 issue after updating to 1909

I'm one of the many people suffering from issues with user profiles after applying Update 1909 to Windows 10. I've read all the threads I can find on the topic here and have followed the suggestions, all to no avail. Any other thoughts are appreciated.

After applying Update 1909, the ProfileImagePath was changed to c:\users\User.000
One file that was always in use and couldn't be removed was left in c:\users\User (can't recall or find the exact file now), so I could never rename or remove the c:\user\User directory.

I followed the multiple suggestions from Brink and others:

• Rebooted at least 6 times
• Enabled hidden Administrator
• Booted into Safe Mode
• Changed ProfileImagePath
• Tried to rename c:\users\User but couldn't because a file was still in use
• Copied all data from c:\users\User.000 into c:\users\User
• Rebooted and had temporary profile
• Followed steps in Brink tutorial to change ImageProfilePath; rebooted with no change
• Restored using Restore Point from before Update 1909 - returned to single profile state (User.000)
• Removed each update that was installed individually and rebooted after each update removal - profile state never changed
• After all updates were removed, repeated the steps above with hidden Administrator, changing profile, etc. - same issue with file in use in c:\users\User
• Followed all steps above with hidden Administrator but without copying files from User.000 to User - same results

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

Invisible found.000 folder after chkdsk

Perfect answer, I can see the files now, thanks.

As a side, is it possible to view what index and directory files are for my system? Or is there any other information on these deleted files and folders?

I don't think every file that was deleted is shown in found.000, so if I could find them and re-download that would be great.

From the chkdsk:

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

Deleting an index entry from index $O of file 19.

Deleting index entry $RU90UP6.zip in index $I30 of file 6D9.

Sorting index $I30 in file 43723.

Deleting index entry DPSH.zip in index $I30 of file 43723.

Deleting index entry DATPST~1.ZIP in index $I30 of file 43723.

Deleting index entry Disc 2 in index $I30 of file 43723.

Deleting index entry DISC2~1 in index $I30 of file 43723.

Correcting error in index $I30 for file 43744.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the bitmap for index $I30 for file 43744.

Sorting index $I30 in file 43744.

698556 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.

CHKDSK is scanning unindexed files for reconnect to their original directory.

Recovering orphaned file xx (3FE35) into directory file 46B7B.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43745) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43745) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43748) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43748) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43749) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (43749) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (4374A) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (4374A) into directory file 43744.

Recovering orphaned file xx (4374B) into directory file 43744.

Skipping further messages about recovering orphans.

19 unindexed files scanned.

15 unindexed files recovered to original directory.

CHKDSK is recovering remaining unindexed files.

4 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

Lost and found is located at \found.000

The ones in bold are the files I'm trying to find what they are, I've figured what the rest are. Nothing similar is in the found folder.