Compact failed about wslcompact HOT 2 OPEN

It is quite interesting that the local temp file is not C:\Users\Robula\AppData\Local\Temp\wslcompact\Ubuntu.vhdx

It seems that your temp folder is not under your user folder tree. wslcompact uses the TEMP variable. Can you check it by typing this in powershell:

ls env:T*

In normal conditions it should return something like:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
TMP                            C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP                           C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp

I don't know what could be happening in your system, a virus, a software changing the temp folder, or an unknown problem with your Windows 11. The command above could bring some light on this issue.

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I have been having the same problem (when trying to compact my docker-desktop-data data image). I have successfully compacted this image before, however, I now cannot get past the above messages. I have tried:

• wsl --shutdown prior to wslcompact
• running wslcompact immediately after startup (wsl does not open at startup on my machine)
• changing TMP and TEMP locations to a different drive (external HDD)
• Editing the wslcompact code to run line 100 (wsl --unregister wslcompact | Out-Null) before line 99 (Move-Item...)
• Further editing the above to run wsl --shutdown and a 5 second sleep, after the unregister command, before attempting Move-Item...

Every time I got the same pair of errors: Move-Item... failed, causing line 101 $size2 = (Get-Item... to fail.

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