Double Users Folders after 10061

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  1. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
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    Double Users Folders after 10061


    Very odd. These look like bogus junction points (symbolic links) in my user directory. Got this after 10049 to 10061 update. Reverted back to 10049 and tried again, same. Clean install 10061 from ISO, same. Did not have this before on any builds. Have included a screenshot and list of current junction points on PC. Any ideas?

    more_junctions.txtDouble Users Folders after 10061-2015-04-24_17h59_29.png
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  2. Posts : 3,502
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    f14tomcat said:
    Very odd. These look like bogus junction points (symbolic links) in my user directory. Got this after 10049 to 10061 update. Reverted back to 10049 and tried again, same. Clean install 10061 from ISO, same. Did not have this before on any builds. Have included a screenshot and list of current junction points on PC. Any ideas?
    That one threw me ...

    They are "bogus" - they're tied to Desktop; not sure how that really works though - a name space?

    The left pane in the image below shows a straight C:\Users view of my profile (one instance of the folders), the right pane shows the nav pane view of my profile (two instances of my folders).

    Double Users Folders after 10061-x.png

    These are very real (check the properties and notice that the location tab is the real folder).

    Unfortunately, I never delved that deeply into how the how it's all tied together, but there's a difference between the C:\users profile and what gets displayed from the nav pane (going back even earlier to 'my documents' ).

    Sorry I couldn't be of more help, maybe a spark will fire up someone's brain cells.

    Win10 needs a lot of work. I've been test driving things in real world scenarios using what MS offers - the OS needs work, but the app model needs a lot more. They're joined at the hip tough.

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  3. Posts : 3,257
    Windows 10 Pro
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    Strange, must be something carried over from multiple version upgrades. An upgrade from a system that was installed clean from a more recent version (I installed the leaked 10036 and upgraded from that) doesn't even have a "Profile" node anymore. It's all just listed under This PC.

    Also, I notice you don't have any arrows on your nodes, but mine does.

    Double Users Folders after 10061-folders.png
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  4. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
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    I'm really glad to see it's happening to others! Not meanly glad, just I thought I was going bonkers! To add to the mystery, if you go into, say one of the documents, and sort it by date, go into the other documents, sort it by name, get out of all, go back to your user folder and they have retained the different sort order for each!

    I'm gonna let this one just be happy, and wait. I've dug through all the junctions on C: and nothing is obvious.

    Thanks, to both, for the replies. :)
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  5. Posts : 56,806
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    Mystere said:
    Strange, must be something carried over from multiple version upgrades. An upgrade from a system that was installed clean from a more recent version (I installed the leaked 10036 and upgraded from that) doesn't even have a "Profile" node anymore. It's all just listed under This PC.

    Also, I notice you don't have any arrows on your nodes, but mine does.

    Double Users Folders after 10061-folders.png
    Side Note @Mystere, about the arrows... if your have your mouse cursor in the navigation pane, it will show arrows. If you move it to main pane, they fade away!
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Double Users Folders after 10061-2015-04-25_19h56_03.png   Double Users Folders after 10061-2015-04-25_19h56_41.png  
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  6. Posts : 17,838
    Windows 10
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    Oops! Don't delete one of the duplicates cuz they both go!

    EDIT: No worries, they get re-created when called upon.
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  7. Posts : 3,257
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    f14tomcat said:
    Side Note @Mystere, about the arrows... if your have your mouse cursor in the navigation pane, it will show arrows. If you move it to main pane, they fade away!
    Ahh.. right. Never noticed that, it's that way even in Windows 8...

    Still, the point being, I don't even have a "Profile" node in my left hand pane.
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  8. Posts : 17,838
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    Mystere said:
    I don't even have a "Profile" node in my left hand pane.
    Even if you 'Show all folders'?
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  9. Posts : 5,286
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #9

    Mystere said:
    Ahh.. right. Never noticed that, it's that way even in Windows 8...

    Still, the point being, I don't even have a "Profile" node in my left hand pane.
    As Edwin pointed out above...

    Double Users Folders after 10061-10061_profilefolder.png
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  10. Posts : 3,502
    Win_8.1-Pro, Win_10.1607-Pro, Mint_17.3
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    Edwin said:
    Oops! Don't delete one of the duplicates cuz they both go!

    EDIT: No worries, they get re-created when called upon.
    I deleted one of each of the user system folders listed in the navigation pane and only one was deleted, the other was a dead end and reported that the folder was missing.

    But ... as I warned in my previous post about the location, the REAL folder under my user profile was deleted.
    I'm not sure what you mean by "when called upon" - I'll see if the real folders get recreated after signing out and in again.

    Nothing was "restored to normal" as I wrote this, but looking around I noticed that the two new libraries:
    Camera Roll & Saved Pictures were presented
    ... I'm fairly certain that I deleted those before - I definitely deleted them now
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