Windows 10: "Camera roll" and "Saved pictures" folders repeatedly create themselves on my desktop

Every so often, two empty folders appear mysteriously on my Windows 10 desktop. They call themselves "Camera roll" and "Saved pictures". Each time I delete them, but before long they re-create themselves. What on earth is going on?

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"Camera Roll" and "Saved Pictures" folders: permanently delete on Windows 10

The Camera Roll folder is created by the Camera app.

The Saved Pictures folder is created by the Photos app.

If you simply delete the folders those apps will recreate them based on the location stored in the registry at:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

When viewing this location in Regedit, if the purpose of each key isn't obvious, look them up on Microsoft's KNOWNFOLDERID page.

To truly delete the folders you must Uninstall the Camera and Photos Apps and then delete the folders.

If you just want to move them somewhere more convenient the article commented by @w23sh above is very thorough.

Remove Camera Roll, Saved Pictures and Screenshots Folders & Libraries in Windows 10?

It boils down to "Cut and paste the folder to a location of your choosing."

 

Change camera roll picture backup folder in skydrive

default folder to save photo on one drive from camera is: Pictures>Camera roll.

so why is my windows phone 10 keep on creating & saving it on Pictures 1>camera roll?? I delete this folder, yet it keep on creating it.

How do I get rid of the "1" and have it save on the default "Pictures" folder?

update:

found a work around.

Rename your Onedrive Picture to something else.

take a picture and upload

a new folder will be created and it will be Pictures>Camera Roll and ur picture will be saved there.

then you can move your pictures back to the "new" Pictures folder.

 

"Camera Roll" and "Saved Pictures" folders: permanently delete on Windows 10

On my Windows 10, inside the Pictures folder, I see two empty folders I didn't create: one is called Camera Roll and the other Saved Pictures.

I tried deleting them, but after a while they get re-created. It's really wrong to create items in users folders; when I try to create a clean, tidy structure that works for me, somebody else's "contributions" get to be irritating.

So I have a few preliminary questions, trying to understand this issue:

1. Which process is creating these folders?
   
2. At what time are they getting recreated (log ons, restarts?, when some app runs? I'm not sure, from my experience...)?
   

And finally my big question:

1. How do I delete them permanently?