I expect a log file to show up in a certain folder. It's not showing in Explorer, and it's not showing if I DIR *.LOG in the folder. But if I go up a few levels, then it shows in a DIR /S.
Observe this output from my elevated DOS session:
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask\bin\Debug>dir /s *.log
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 56E5-5398
File Not Found
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask\bin\Debug>cd ..
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask\bin>dir /s *.log
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 56E5-5398
File Not Found
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask\bin>cd ..
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask>dir /s *.log
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 56E5-5398
File Not Found
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailsTask>cd ..
C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler>dir /s *.log
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 56E5-5398
Directory of C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\ProcessSalesEmailTests\bin\Debug
05/27/2016 12:15 PM 21,112 ProcessSalesEmailTests Temporary Local Log File.log
1 File(s) 21,112 bytes
Directory of C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\SaApiVerification\bin\Debug
02/29/2016 11:00 AM 15,339 SaApiVerification Temporary Local Log File.log
1 File(s) 15,339 bytes
Directory of C:\Users\AFabris\Source\Workspaces\SendBus\Development\TaskScheduler\SmtpLogicProcessingEmailTest\bin\Debug
10/22/2015 12:56 PM 12 SmtpLogicProcessingEmailTest Temporary Local Log File.log
1 File(s) 12 bytes
WHAT THE HECK?
Why doesn't the file appear until I've moved up a few directory levels?!?!?!?
This isn't a timing thing, this is consistent. File is not flagged as "hidden" or "system" anthing that I know about.
WTF?