Jimbob H is a shortcut so it doesn't occupy any space on your hard drive. You can see the real location:
\\192.168.0.8\h$
h$ is an Administrative share, do you have read/write access to that it?
Perhaps define a new share, call it H_drive or something , turn off password controlled access and give Everyone full R/W access, or leave password controlled access on and give the account you want full R/W access, then change the link to:
\\192.168.0.8\D_drive.
Yeah I also have it mapped as a network drive so I don't really need this network shortcut.
I've tried to remove it but when I try to delete the shortcut, windows starts calculating deleting everything on that remote drive so I stop it immediately.
Both treesize and windows explorer seem to think that it's taking up 40 something gb on the C drive. But the actual remove drive has 3.81tb of files so this 40gb only seems to be a subset...
Has it put some of these files on my C drive instead of the remote drive? Are these copies? I'm very confused.
So far, found this:
I just created a Network Connections Shortcut. The only place it shows up is under Network Location. No drive letter is assigned. I can delete it with no problem.for some strange reason all shortcuts in the "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts" directory are classed as "file folders" and don't have the .lnk extension
It looks exactly like your as far as I can tell.
I think we're getting our wires crossed here. The network shortcut does not have a drive letter. I have the same network location mapped as a network shortcut and a drive letter. I want to keep the drive letter (black circle) and get ride of the network shortcut (red circle) because it seems to be taking up 40 some gb on my local drive.
But when I try to delete the network shortcut it starts calculating up what is inside it to delete (going up to about 45gb)
And then it says that it's too big to delete to the recycle bin and it needs to be permanently deleted. Network files can't be deleted to the recycle bin so these are definitely kept locally.
I can't seem to move the files in this "folder" to the network location or to anywhere else on my C drive. So how can I get rid of this network shortcut without deleting any files I don't want to?
Okay, sorry.
As I said though, I created a Network Connections Shortcut to a folder on another computer and wable to delete that connection without any problem and with zero impact on this computer.
Maybe it's time to try an in place Repair Install?
See this tutorial by Shawn Brink:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
Since it doesn't behave properly, maybe just ignore it for now until you decide to do a Clean Install at some point in the future?
Maybe delete the net use drive then try deleting the network connection again?
Try from Safe Mode?
Also search the registry for "Jimbob H", see what that finds? May turn up something interesting.
Nothing interesting in the registry for jimbob or jimbob h.
Not planning on doing a clean install any time soon (or ever if it can be avoided).
I'll just deal with it for now and keep thinking.....
I have exactly same issue, does anyone figured out how to get rid of this cached data?
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OK so I went out of any idea why windows cached the files under network drive link. So I permanently deleted the link and seems like this fixed the issue :). Yes windows started calculating so I was wondering if files are being deleted also on destination network drive, but i can confirm files were intact and were deleted only on local drive c.
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