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Nocriton
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VMware Tools custom quiescing scripts failed because of thumbs.db

Hi Everybody

The last few hours i was working on creating custom quiescing scripts.

I tried to keep at close as possible to KB 1006671.

Every time i tried to start a snapshot with memory "False" and quiesce "True", the snapshot failed because the script returned with a errorlevel >0.

The snapshot even failed without a script inside C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\backupScripts.d\

After two hours of testing and debugging i found out that the folder  C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\backupScripts.d\ had a thumbs.db inside.
I deleted the file and every thing was working.

I'm now searching for a way to remove the file from the folder or exclude it.

Could someone please check if he has the same problems?

Best regards

Andreas Girrbach

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AndreTheGiant
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This kind of file is usally generate by the Preview mode of Explorer.

Maybe you have set this kind of view in this folder.

Andre

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Nocriton
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Yes, i know how the file is beeing created. But it drives me crazy that the VMware Tools are trying to execute this systemfile as a script.

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