Installed Windows 10 Fall Creators Update - Now Everything is Missing In Duplicati

[kenkendk]

@kees-z

When Duplicati is registered as a Windows service, it will be started using the Local System account. This is not a “real” user account, you can’t log on interactively with it. This account also has a profile folder, but it is not located in C:\Users.

The location used to store the Local System’s profile is C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile. The environment variable %APPDATA% (this variable is used by Duplicati to choose its storage location) points to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData.

This is why Duplicati DB files are stored in C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Duplicati if it is started as a service.

Thanks for pointing this out, I was not aware that the system account is in C:\Windows, nor that the big updates actually removes the folder.

I think this warrants some special handling from Duplicati to avoid using folders that are inside the Windows folder.