Just how many video folders should there be??

Up until recently I had two video folders on my PC, one in with my collections (photos, music, videos etc), which I consider the principal folder, and another as a User subfolder (which is identical in terms of its contents to the main one, and which I don't really touch).

The other day, for some reason there was a third folder, containing exactly the same files as the other two, nested within the public videos subfolder of the main video folder. As my video folder contains numerous films, and is therefore very space consuming, I decided to delete the third folder; I received a message that the contents were too big to go in the bin. After about a minute I realised that the contents of this third folder were also being removed from the other two video folders, and so I cancelled the deletion, but not before a large number of video files had been completely removed.

I have managed to recover some of these (but by no means all of them) by using various software. But the problem still remains: why is there a third video folder, and how can I get rid of it and its contents without affecting my other video folders?

Thanks for the reply, Kaktussoft.

I initially tried what you've suggested, but there were no restore points on my PC!!!
I used a couple of recovery tools (including Recuva), but many of the files I'd erased could not be restored.
I've uploaded a screenshot but it is not terribly helpful. You can probably see, however, that the two video folders are identical (I wouldn't have been able to fit the User video folder on the same screenshot.)

Hi Kaktussoft,

Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you (terrible week!!).

Here is the screenshot you asked for (you'll notice that my version of Windows 7 is in Italian, but I'm sure you can still understand what the commands etc. are).

If I add a file or subfolder to any one of the three video folders, it appears in the other two folders.

I am really the only one who uses this computer, and there is only one user profile (if my wife does use this laptop, she uses my profile; but she doesn't watch my videos!)

Florio

Have done as you say, but the screenshot is the same. I'm sure that you are right, and that I (accidentally) dragged and dropped one video folder into the other.
The 'ripristina' button doesn't seem to have done anything.

I'm doing it now, but all of the files are being copied!! Should this be happening? It's going to take an hour...