Duplicate folders in C:\Users\

[Nigel Molesworth]

My main documents, contacts, videos (...) folders are on a totally separate
drive, relocated using the Location tab on the folder Properties.

It has been working fine for a year or more, but suddenly I keep getting
duplicate folders in C:\Users\Nigel\

Any way to stop this?

On a similar subject, is there any way to stop programs from creating
sub-folders in MY documents folder?

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

You can use the manual method in Option Three of this tutorial below to
make sure that the user folder has the correct full path of the new
location you wanted it to be in the registry.

Yes, folders all have entries on my M: drive, as required.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Did you change the default folder path in the programs to use the new
User folder location instead since they were relocated? The program will
continue to recreate whatever "C:\Users\(user name)" folder it is
pointed to until changed.

I don't think the last statement is true, surely that is the point of the
registry entries? However, I changed the path when I installed Vista a year
ago, it is only recently that the problem has occurred.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Messenger always
kept creating a folder in the "C:\Users\Documents" folder when I deleted
that yellow "C:\Users\Documents" folder until I turned that option off
or changed the Messenger folder location in Messenger's options.

Ah, so it's Messenger doing it [goes away to check...], yes it is! I now
have an extra Contact folder.

So, how do I stop it?