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My backup keeps failing with error code 0x81000037 and Microsoft's KB says that I have reparse points somewhere that are causing this. How can I find them in a large group of files and folders?

Jonas Heidelberg
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leeand00
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  • I noticed alot of the junctions are in the C:\Users\Users\\AppData folders, and that I got alot of error loggings about those folders. So I'm going to try and remove those from the backup. Geez Microsoft you'd think you could give us a list of the bad junctions at least. – leeand00 Jul 20 '10 at 22:02
  • (in the error message...) – leeand00 Jul 20 '10 at 22:10
  • Note that generally you **don't need** to remove *all* reparse points, but only those of type "mounted volume", and only if they are at least partially including stuff in one of your "Libraries". See [here](http://superuser.com/questions/298019/what-can-i-do-about-windows-7-backup-error-0x81000037-apparently-caused-by-repar/339858#339858) for my detailed answer. – Jonas Heidelberg Sep 26 '11 at 09:33

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dir *directory* /AD /S | find "<JUNCTION>" To save to a file:

dir *directory* /AD /S | find "<JUNCTION>" > *filename*.txt

On Windows 7 (not sure about Vista), you can also use:

dir /AL /S

to search for Reparse Points. This should be a lot faster than going through the whole directory contents then piping it to find.

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