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e.g. Moved the Public Music and Videos folders correctly using the move button. To do this I had to temporarily disable User Account Control via control panel, as per Microsoft Instructions.
The old folders under c:\Users\Public remained there and were inaccessible even as administrator – could not list the owner, could not delete etc.
This forum post describes the problem, but their solution did not work for me.
In the end, after a logout/reboot they seemed to be ‘magically’ accessible again – I managed to rename one of the old ones, then found I could delete them all, even after having restored UAC back to default.
This is a bit of a weird area – needed some tinkering to sort it, info on the net not fully clear. Only some of the public folders were affected, documents were not. The user folders were not affected. All very strange!
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