Windows 10 Keeps creating user directory- Pain in the Ass!

[Formaleins]

I am fed up of some of the stupid stuff that Windows 10 keeps coming up with. The irritation at the moment is the continual creation of a directory on EVERY hard drive on my computer that is linked to my user name (I am admin on the PC)

Every single drive keeps getting a set of directories created that contain Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music etc. all prefixed with my user name account info.

I already have this garbage on my C drive and do not use it, by default I set my Docs/Music/Pics etc. to my D Drive, and my Windows is configured in a way that the main ones are stored on my OneDrive folder, also on a different drive to C:

I can live with the basic setup that creates Username\Documents....etc. on the C: Drive, as it is part of the installed OS. I can also live happily with my drives configured to store all of the data to my other drive under the same username\Documents... etc. as it works pretty much OK.

 

What really pisses me off is that after a few restarts I then find the same folders duplicated on every drive on my system all with username\documents... etc.

 

Mostly Windows does not seem to use these drives or directories to actually store anything and most times it defaults to my own configured drive.

But, every now and again especially when saving things like a PDF from the net. it just goes and saves the file on some random drive under username\documents...  Then later when I look in my configured documents folder, the damn file isn't there and I have to go traipsing around looking in every drive under my username to find it has stored the file in the documents folder it has created there.

 

Anyone know how to stop this bloody thing from doing this?

 

Cheers!

[bendejo]

I have a lot of partitions, and have since before XP (now running Win10).  The partitions are on both the laptop's internal drive as well as an external USB HD that is almost always connected. This doesn't happen with my system.

Sorry, can't offer a solution. 

 

I vaguely recall back when Windows differentiated C:\Users\yourname\AppData from "C:\Users\yourname\Application Data" with one being a special link to the other.  I monkeyed around with it and (again, vaguely recall) it did something along the lines of what you describe.  Other people had this problem and I eventually got it fixed: it had something to do with a lack of write permissions on that special link, so Win went and put it's data somewhere else.

I suggest that you have a look under C:\Users\yourname\AppData and see if anything under there is getting updated, the 2 subdirectories that are the busiest on my system are Local and Roaming.

 

If you solve it let us know.