Why do sql profiles in c:\users repeat the files in "Documents"?

I was looking at c:\users and found the additional profiles other than my own, jrmoo.

What troubles me is that if I do a directory listing, I find the same folder structure and in the Documents folder, find the same duplicated files that are in my main profile. Why does installing sql server and reporting services do this?
Here is an example of the last profile:

In the documents folder, you can see in the following image that it has over 8 gig of data.


Is this normal? Why the repetitive data?
Thanks in advance!
James

Thanks for the tip, EdTittel. So, are you saying that you think it is possibly normal to copy over every single folder and file from my main user profile and duplicate it in these sql server profiles? If so, what a waste of hard drive space.

Generally speaking, it shouldn't take much space at all.

jrmocfl said:

is possibly normal to copy over every single folder and file from my main user profile and duplicate it in these sql server profiles? If so, what a waste of hard drive space.

For the amount of space these take up, it's not worth breaking anything unless you run a good imaging program first.

If it aint broke don't fix it. :)

Even if there is a total of over 50 gigs in this combined folders that is duplicated from my main profile?

It wouldn't do any harm to delete these folders, would it?

C:\Users\MSSQL$SQL2016
8,445,399,547

C:\Users\MSSQLFDLauncher$SQL2016
8,423,122,352

c:\uses\mssql$sql2016
\8,445,399,547

C:\Users\MSSQLLaunchpad$SQL2016
8,423,454,685

C:\Users\ReportServer$SQL2016
8,425,346,879

C:\Users\SQLTELEMETRY$SQL2016
8,425,346,879

Total GIG = 50,588,069,889

I am happy to report that I deleted every single folder w/ files in the above SQL user profiles except what is shown in the image below and my local SQL server and reporting services are working just fine. I also freed up over 50+ gig of duplicated data from my main profile.