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What is $Secure:$SDS:$DATA on Windows?

One of my customers has seen $Secure:$SDS:$DATA show up on their drive and it keeps growing while my app is running. I don't (knowingly) write to this file, and don't use any type of Windows secure storage (which might be related). Kind of stumped...

Any thoughts on what this might be?

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From what I gather it's a metafile for NTFS. Does your app handle anything related to user access or NTFS permissions on files?

Patrick  2009-10-24 16:21:24
My app does change permissions on some files that it creates (it's a service, so it adds permissions so other users can access them -- mostly log files, and only a limited number of them). I don't find that file on my machines, but one customer has one that is continually growing, and is now 1GB.
DougN  2009-10-24 19:16:09

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