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.

Documents and Settings is only a Junction hard link to the real users folders. Documents and Settings is not a real 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:\>

It's done that way to maintain compatibility with really old programs that are looking for a Documents and Settings folder.

So you are saying there are not two files, just two pointers, I guess.
So I can delete the Documents and Setting folder?

jharris91 said:

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.

Thanks! NavyLCDR