User Folder Corrupt

Apr 21, 2009

I recently partitioned my 500 GB hard disk on my Vista computer into multiple drives in order to keep data files and picture files separate. In doing that I succeeded in

screwing up the folder line-up in my user folder. In spite of many tries I haven't been able to "unscrew" it. There are two main problems:

1. There are now two folders called Pictures (E referring to ther new partition

Both of these folders contain the same subfolders and files. No matter what I try, I cannot delete one of these listings.

2. There is an additional folder called Pictures.

However this folder contains all the music folders and files. When I try to rename this folder to Music, I get the error message:"This action can't be completed because the

folder is open in another program", even though no other programs are running.

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