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Holy Moley! So I download WOFF. Yippee! But I only have 26 GB free on my static drive. Hmmm. Well, I've had this problem for a while, after having moved my user accounts to the spinning drive, it still seemed that the Public Pictures were stored on the static drive. As a matter of fact, the public Pictures folder showed up in two places: C:\Users\Public\Pictures and D:\Users\Public\Pictures. The icon for the C:\Users\Public folder though, was a shortcut, but it's properties didn't show it's target directory. I forget how I did all that and why the "Public" user hive was different. Well, dang. That folder is showing 49.7 GB! How about I right click, properties, hmm, i can point it to the D:\Users\Public\Pictures and maybe that will eliminate the duplicates. Hmmm. Looking good!.... Let's see now... Start.. Pictures... GASP! They are every one gone! No recycle bin, no undo, they are just gone.... Three years of pics, my son's first flight this summer, our house from the air, Christmases. Birthdays, everything! And the static drive still showed 26 GB free! So they must not have been there after all! Well, I wasn't completely without backup, but it wasn't 100%. So I'm working with a file recovery utility to try to get them back. And while I am at it (waiting...), I created a new signature banner to commemorate the release of OFF and the resurgence of the BOC! Windows should make it boneheadedly simple to put your user accounts & other bloating data wherever you bloody well want them. Static drives aren't cheap! And... guess who's going to be aggressive about his backups and restore points! All I wanted to to was get WOFF installed, maybe go for a spin... Wish me luck, fellow WOFFers! Best, Tom