Windows 10: Double Users Folders after 10061

You might be right.

Did anyone notice that there are six default Libraries now?

 

Sort of, I'm still playing around with the doubles. Camera Roll and Saved Pictures are under Pictures (I assume CR is OneDrive and SP is photo app). You can't get rid of either one ... at least I couldn't *Wink - they keep coming back!

The Camera Roll sent me down the "maybe it's OneDrive related"... deleting one of the duplicates and running cCleaner Registry after sort of reinforced that "connected Storage" entries kept coming back every time I saved and cleaned them up.

I fired up OneDrive and let the sync occur hoping that might straighten it out automagically. Some new options in setting up OneDrive (different location option - aha! maybe I'm on the right track). Well it didn't - I still believe in magic (of a young girl's heart...) though.

The next step was to try moving the location of the user system files - tried Documents (without moving the files - there were no files, but I wanted to keep the folder Documents under my profile).

No problem - then delete one of the duplicates - ok, the other other duplicate failed to find the directory that was just removed - good.

Documents exists under my profile, but it's a plain folder. It seemed promising, only one reference to Documents in the navPane, so the other 4 followed suit (Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos)

I left it simmer for a while and now there are are now THREE references to the special folders in the nav pane. The folders were recreated in the moved location. and the third folder is still a plain folder.

I'm going to let this go and wait for a MS update - there's no harm in leaving the references there, annoying, but harmless.

Bill
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I think having the option to change default save locations, it gives double user folders/libraries.

 

Yeah, the "Save Locations" setting seems to be brain dead. Drive selections, not folder selections, but maybe that's what MS was thinking -
"Tell me the drive and I'll handle the rest of it. Don't worry your pretty little head about it"




Playing a little more, I changed the Save Location for music (in Settings) to G:\ - it created G:\\Music and added that location to my Music Library. This corresponds to your Music app location image.




However, changing the Save Location back to This PC , leaves the extraneous folder on G: and in my Music Library (default save location property is removed from the G: folder though)

An observation: one of the 'duplicates' in your posted Explorer image, Edwin, does not have the folder type icon. I can't tell if it's a 'special' folder from the image though. I still have the 'duplicates' with the folder icon, but the Music Libraries newly created folder does not. This might just be a Windows crawler issue and eventually the folder would have the special folder icon.

I'm really going to let this rest - there are too many hooks in flux (Libraries, Location Settings, Explorer navPane, OneDrive, Security (fully qualified domain\user)).

As Dick said earlier, this seems to be a non-issue ... a non-critical cosmetic/presentation Tech Preview release bug.

I have not fed MS yet, but I will.

Bill
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Still double folders on clean installed 10074.
I was wrong and it's not Local-MS Account related (as I previously suspected) because I haven't signed-in yet to MS Account.

Anyway, it doesn't bother me. Just reporting. *Smile

 

Not only folders.... *Smile

 

So there is no fix for this?

 

Nope - it's all part of testing pre-release code *Wink

 

Chalk it up to Hololens double vision!

 

Hi guys; anybody is getting the DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION error on build 10061 ?freezing and rebooting System
i checked on line that desabling tough pad will resolve the issue?

 

I've seen the WatchDog 'error' in Event viewer for a while, but not freezes or system restarts occur - just an entry in the event log.

You might try a Clean Boot (don't worry about the Win8 reference - should be the same for Win10)
See: Troubleshoot Problem with Clean Boot in Windows 8

I run my machine without any of the extra starts, I used to 'research the 'problem' startup, but now I just disable everything except Microsoft services.

The one caveat to that is: Leave your real time Antivirus (AV) startup entry enabled. Not all AV programs have a startup entry, some use the registry to do a pre-windows init quick scan (for example Defender does not have a startup entry)

This might be what you already posted - disabling the touch pad. That sounded to me as though you might venture into Device Manager to disable the hardware. I don't recommend doing that, just disable the early startup.

I'm not certain the touch pad is causing the WatchDog issue, or that the WatchDog 'error' is causing the freeze/restarts. They might be unrelated.

Anyway, try the clean boot workaround ... you will probably still see WatchDog (timer) issues, but hopefully your system won't freeze/restart.

Another thing to consider is installing bld 10.074
The ISO is available now at: Download Windows 10 Insider Preview ISO - Microsoft Windows