EDITED - I hadn't noticed that there were multiple recursions
This only happened because I was not paying attention and dragged and dropped a folder (and other files) into itself.
While organizing files on my tablet via the web desktop I did the following (all files and folders already on tablet, by the way):
I created a few folders
I selected files to move into one of the folders, only I accidentally selected the destination folder as well,
I dragged the selected folder into itself, along with the selected files.
What happened:
It took a long time, then timed out. After that I found it recursively made copies of the folder and files.
Example:
Documents contains the following:
Folder 1
Folder 2
... various files
What I now have is
Documents
Folder 1 (empty)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
.....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
.....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
....
(thanks to copy and paste) And so on, up to FIFTEEN layers deep. It looks like it went until it ran out of space, since there is now only 52mb on the drive and it failed to copy the last of the items in the deepest nested layer - and that last item is larger than 52mb.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Thank you!
This only happened because I was not paying attention and dragged and dropped a folder (and other files) into itself.
While organizing files on my tablet via the web desktop I did the following (all files and folders already on tablet, by the way):
I created a few folders
I selected files to move into one of the folders, only I accidentally selected the destination folder as well,
I dragged the selected folder into itself, along with the selected files.
What happened:
It took a long time, then timed out. After that I found it recursively made copies of the folder and files.
Example:
Documents contains the following:
Folder 1
Folder 2
... various files
What I now have is
Documents
Folder 1 (empty)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
.....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
.....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
....
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
Folder 2
(files)
....
(thanks to copy and paste) And so on, up to FIFTEEN layers deep. It looks like it went until it ran out of space, since there is now only 52mb on the drive and it failed to copy the last of the items in the deepest nested layer - and that last item is larger than 52mb.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Thank you!