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    Windows 11: My user folders are split between \users\ and "\users\user"!


    Hi,After spending endless hours transferring my files and applications from two computers to a new one, I now discovered that my generic user folders "Documents", "AppData" etc. were sometimes stored under my own user folder and sometimes under the user "User". Please note that before transferring my files I deleted the account "User" from the computer. To make things worse, some of the applications that I installed store app data under "User" and others under my own name...

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