Files mysteriously being duplicated on my machine

[stacio]

I use win7. I sometimes find that duplicates of my files and folders are being made without my knowledge. Nothing nefarious, just plain weird. I'm the only one on me puter (home, no network) and I discovered this one day by a search result showing four copies of the same files with the same creation date, but in different places.

I'm wondering if this is an issue of me using Libraries and I find that in itself frustrating. Guess I should get some training on that.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Do you have any backup apps running?

 

[hang-the-9]

What files are these? Many or just a few? Are these system files or your files?

 

[magantothemax]

i have the same problem too..
i used to save my files on the local disk D
then one day i found the exact copies of my files located in the libraries..
i can see the same files on PICTURES, MUSIC, DOCUMENTS folders.
all are the same!
i tried to delete those files then this was happened.. my original files on local disk D was also deleted.
now every time i make changes on D, it also happens on the other said folders.

my hard disk is getting full because of these duplicates
so please help me fix this problem.

 

[nikorr]

magantothemax, this old thread...

Go to your own one.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/30720-63-files-mysteriously-duplicated-machine

 

[nikorr]

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