Windows 10: Application Data 13 levels deep

Recently my C:\ drive lost 3GB. Still haven't figure out why, but whilst searching I came across this strange issue.

If I go to c:\users and look in the All Users hidden folder I will see a folder called Application Data which is a junction to C:\ProgramData. If I cd to that hidden Application Data folder I will see another hidden Application Data junction that again points to C:\ProgramData. And so on until I get to 13 levels of Application Data folders.

If I look at if from the C:\ drive I see a hidden folder called Documents and Settings. In that folder is a hidden folder called All Users which is a symlink to C:\ProgramData. In All Users is a hidden folder called Application Data which points to C:\ProgramData, and so on down 13 levels of Application Data folders.

Eg. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data>

At the 13th level is a folder called Battle.Net. That should be there. If I look at the contents of c:\programdata\battle.net I see files as I would expect.

If I dir from the command line from the above path (13 levels of application data), it says that the Battle.net folder is empty. If I attempt to cd into batlle.net is says the file or folder does not exist.

Perhaps I've hit the maximum length of the path at that point.

So I went back one level and did rd "application data". Then dir /ah. It now says The system cannot find the path specified.

Going back to C:\Users\All Users, the entire path is now gone. Have I just broken Windows?

So, without reinstalling windows how do I resolve this?

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