I've got a python program which is supposed to clean up a number of directories and one of them is C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\metaback ; however, os.path.exists() returns False on that directory even though it exists (and I have permissions to access it).

What's interesting also is that the tool windirstat completely misses it as well.

Can anyone think of a reason why this might be and what's another way I could check to see if it exist? I can't even seem to run os.listdir() on it.