Second Documents & Pictures Folders


  1. nigelmercier
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    Second Documents & Pictures Folders


    My data files are all on a second hard drive, so I have changed the location of the Special Folders to point to them. Every so often I discover a second Documents or Pictures folder (with a 2 appended) lurking in my folder list, always empty.

    Anyone know how to stop this?
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  3. Berton
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    nigelmercier said:
    My data files are all on a second hard drive, so I have changed the location of the Special Folders to point to them. Every so often I discover a second Documents or Pictures folder (with a 2 appended) lurking in my folder list, always empty.

    Anyone know how to stop this?
    Don't know as it can totally be done because some programs when installed will insist on creating a Folder they need when they don't find them.
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  4. nigelmercier
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    Berton said:
    Don't know as it can totally be done because some programs when installed will insist on creating a Folder they need when they don't find them.
    Indeed, but it means they are looking in the wrong place. I've had this issue with W7, but in this case I haven't installed anything new.
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