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Maybe try to remove, then readd the folders: Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10
Wrongly named system folders
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New #12
^this!
tenforums tutorials |restore-default-location-personal-folders-windows-10
You can search for your files later. Try with treesize free, and look for large folders
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New #13
Please run the following from an admin powershell and let me know if they find any corruption:
Code:sfc /scannow dism /online /cleanup-image /ScanHealth
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New #14
No corruptions or loss of integrity Steve108
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New #16
From the icons, it looks like the second & third 'documents' are in fact your music and pictures. I would guess the desktop.ini files in those folders has been corrupted. I won't be testing this on my PC, but you could try to re-establish the original destop.ini contents - for reference, these are mine:
DocumentsMusicCode:[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112 IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll IconIndex=-235
PicturesCode:[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790 InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108 IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll IconIndex=-237
I think we'd all be interested in the result! hth, MartinCode:[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21779 InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-113 IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll IconIndex=-236
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New #17
Charlie,
What you refer to as "system folders appearing under This PC" are not folders at all but a special type of shortcut to the folders that are within your user folder
C:\Users\%UserName%
They are made to look like folders but they are not. MS thinks this is a helpful thing to do.
The fault you are experiencing is that these shortcuts have been corrupted.
The reason that adding a file to any of them adds the same files to the others is because they are merely shortcuts and some of them are pointing to the same places. No duplicate files are being created, it is merely that your views of your folders have been duplicated by the corrupted shortcuts.
1 You can sidestep the issue completely by creating a replacement user account. Its user folder shortcuts will appear correctly in File explorer.
2 Since you have only just (re)installed Windows 10 you might decide to sidestep the problem by doing that again. You'd need to backup your own files first so go to C:\Users\%UserName% for that i.e. do not rely on any of those corrupted shortcuts.
3 If you knew what you did that caused this situation then it might be worth working through fixing each part of the problem. But if you do not know how the current situation came about then I think this would take more time & effort than either of the two 'sidestepping' solutions.
Denis
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New #18
Thanks Mngerhold - I'm no expert so did a search for desktop.ini and found dozens. There are three though which look likely with commondocuments, commonmusic and commonpictures in the filename in the WinSxS folder - would they be right? The entries are as follows:
Documents
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21801
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-3
Music
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21803
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-3
Pictures
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21802
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-3
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New #20
Denis is right: I was referring only to the .ini files in the very 'folders' you are having trouble with. But creating a new user account is far simpler and safer.
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