Windows 10: Deleted user folder being recreated.

Hi All

I deleted one of my users. However old folder is being recreated every time Windows Search service is restarted. File which is causing that is:

"C:\Users\DELETED_USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\InputPersonalization\TextHarvester\TextHarvester. dat"

Anyone know how to stop this?

I am using latest Windows 10 with all the updates.

Thank you.

:)

 

Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

Recreate or fix user account

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and your efforts towards resolving it. We will assist you to resolve this issue.

Since you have mentioned that you had already backed up the file on Drop box and Crashplan, I suggest you to access the respective backplan websites and try to retrieve the user files which are missing. Once you retrieve the files, I suggest you to follow
the steps below and check if it helps.

a. Log in to a new user profile which was created.

b. Open Documents folder.

c. Click on View, then Click on Options and then select Change Folder and search options.

1.Click
Show hidden files, folders, and drives.

2. Clear the
Hide protected operating system filescheck
box, click Yesto confirm, and
then click OK

3. Locate the C:\Users\Old_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and Old_Username is the name of the profile you want to copy files from.

4. Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files:

• • Ntuser.dat
  • Ntuser.dat.log
  • Ntuser.ini

5. Click the
Editmenu, and then click
Copy.
If you don't see the
Edit
menu, press Alt.

6. Locate the C:\Users\New_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and New_Username is the name of the new user profile you created.

7. Click the
Editmenu, and then click
Paste.
If you don't see the
Editmenu, press Alt.

8. Log off, and then log back on as the new user.

9. If you have e-mail messages in an e-mail program, you must import your e-mail messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. If everything
is working properly, you can delete the old profile.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Recreated User folder - permissions

OK so answer this: when I log in as Dave and try to delete user Mac20, in order to recreate it, why does W10 keep telling me Mac20 is logged in when that isn't true? Can I just delete the C:\User\Mac20 folder?