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folders&files scramble themselves/ shuffle pieces all over the place
Hi folks, this my first post so please bear with me. I'm having a problem that I can't seem to find any help with on Google, but I'm probably not asking the question right. Here goes. After spending a great deal of
time arranging all my folders the way I want them and making a few changes to system(?) folders like my documents, my pictures and downloads (in terms of locating the files somewhere else using the locations tab(?) in properties) everything works fine for a few days and then when I fire up the pc I find that there will be two or three folders like desktop scattered in bizarre places. Usually I can fix it by relocating the mysteriously moved partial directories back near the originals and then using the locations thingy to put them all back into proper (original) folders and then everything is fine. For awhile. Then after several similar episodes I fire up my pc and not only are the system(?) folders screwy, but many of the directories/folders in my User folder are messed up in ways that are hard to imagine. For example, I will find parts of my original folders (like Budget - which has like 15 sub and sub-subfolders - which was under My Documents) under several completely different folders. Like one subfolder - banking for example - will have subfolders for one bank under downloads, another bank and its subfolders under a folder called Our Info\John\SSA and so forth. No rhyme, no reason, just apparently random relocations as if the evil twin Windows God picked up my entire directory structure and shuffled it - and not too well at that, but thoroughly mixed up and almost impossible to find all the fragments of my original folders without using Search and hoping I remember enough folder and file names to find them using Search. Cannot figure out the right question on Google to come even close to a relevant answer. Don't understand how or why happens. I even tried holding my mouth right, but no such ruck!!