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Win 10 creating two copies of all files
Example:
Save photo as Jim 2016.jpg – it then shows up in two places:
E:\Users\Jim H\Documents\Pictures
E:\Documents and Settings\Jim H\Documents\Pictures
Advice Please.
Example:
Save photo as Jim 2016.jpg – it then shows up in two places:
E:\Users\Jim H\Documents\Pictures
E:\Documents and Settings\Jim H\Documents\Pictures
Advice Please.
Documents and Settings is only a Junction hard link to the real users folders. Documents and Settings is not a real folder.
It's done that way to maintain compatibility with really old programs that are looking for a Documents and Settings folder.Code:C:\>dir /a Volume in drive C is Windows 10 Pro Volume Serial Number is 9FFF-EBE0 Directory of C:\ 11/12/2017 05:59 AM <DIR> $Recycle.Bin 10/19/2017 05:59 PM <DIR> $WINDOWS.~LS 10/16/2017 09:25 PM <DIR> $Windows.~WS 06/16/2017 02:44 PM <DIR> boot 05/09/2017 06:36 PM <JUNCTION> Documents and Settings [C:\Users] 11/20/2017 12:25 PM 2,550,136,832 pagefile.sys 09/29/2017 05:46 AM <DIR> PerfLogs 11/19/2017 04:33 AM <DIR> Program Files 11/15/2017 09:09 AM <DIR> Program Files (x86) 10/09/2017 11:29 AM <DIR> ProgramData 10/09/2017 10:09 AM <DIR> Recovery 11/20/2017 12:25 PM 16,777,216 swapfile.sys 11/19/2017 07:15 PM <DIR> System Volume Information 11/12/2017 09:35 AM <DIR> Users 11/16/2017 11:51 PM <DIR> Windows 2 File(s) 2,566,914,048 bytes 13 Dir(s) 321,641,627,648 bytes free C:\>
So you are saying there are not two files, just two pointers, I guess.
So I can delete the Documents and Setting folder?
There is one file that is located in a real folder C:\Users\Jim H
There is a pointer only to that same file under Documents and Settings.
You can try deleting the Documents and Settings junction if you want to, but it might prevent some installed programs that access user files under Documents and Settings from operating correctly.