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weird file duplication
Hello,
A few months ago I purchased a new Lenovo ThinkPad E545. I haven't had any trouble with it.
Recently I noticed that when I open My Documents, there was an extensive listing (over 2,000!) of files inside of My Documents, but not in folders. These files ranged from documents that should be in folders to program files such as address books and calendar files. I think subconsciously I knew this was going to be a headache, so I ignored it for awhile.
But today it's becoming a problem. I'm in the process of reorganizing my files (which I do often), so I decided to take a closer look at the loose files in Windows Explorer. I also looked inside the subfolders where I keep all my documents, and found the files safely where I expected them to be.
I made a new folder on my desktop and copied all the loose files there. Then I deleted the loose files - not the subfolders - from the My Documents folder. After doing this, all the subfolders were empty. So I copied the files back from the new folder on the desktop into My Documents, but that didn't actually bring back any of the documents. So I restored them from the Recycle Bin, and that worked.
Now I'm back to having a couple thousand loose files in My Documents. I decided I'd just go ahead and finish reorganizing my documents inside the My Documents subfolders, and then do a backup (I do backup regularly). But in the process of creating new subfolders within subfolders, say for example:
>My Documents, >IT, >Windows 7,
when I drag & drop files from >IT to >Windows 7,
the files don't disappear from the >IT folder, although they show up in the >Windows 7 folder.
If I then delete them from the >IT folder, they also disappear from the >Windows 7 folder!
Can someone help me figure out what's happening here?