Windows Explorer duplicate folders

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Harry Wenger

In the default WE view I have My Documents and all the sub-folders in it.
Under My Computer C:/ I have Documents and Settings/Harry's documents/my
documents.
This is an exact duplicate of My Documents. Any doc. I create goes into
both. Any doc. I delete in Harry's docs. also deletes the file in My
documents.
Questions: Is it supposed to be this way? Does this double the amount of
space used on my hard drive?
If not, then how can I change it?
Thanks for any help.
Harry Wenger
 
Harry Wenger said:
In the default WE view I have My Documents and all the sub-folders in it.
Under My Computer C:/ I have Documents and Settings/Harry's documents/my
documents.
This is an exact duplicate of My Documents. Any doc. I create goes into
both. Any doc. I delete in Harry's docs. also deletes the file in My
documents.
Questions: Is it supposed to be this way? Does this double the amount of
space used on my hard drive?
If not, then how can I change it?
Thanks for any help.
Harry Wenger
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If you right click and select properties on the My Documents folder you will
find that they are one and the same, it does not double the amount of space
used.
 
Hi Harry,

One is a mirror of the other, there is actually only one folder. The one
that shows in Windows Explorer is a mirror of the one for the logged on user
(hence what you are seeing). Another user will see the same thing, only the
"My Documents" for them will be a mirror of their user profile's documents
folder. This behavior is by design and is part of the special properties of
the My Documents folder.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Thank you "Just Me" and Rick "Nutcase" Rogers. I am glad to know that this
behavior is planned and normal. I thought for a while that it was something
I was doing. So I now can forget it and carry on from there. Thanks again.
Harry
 
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