Solved How To Stop Sharing

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Personal Files Showing In Two Places, One Separate Hard Drive

I have two hard drives connected to my computer. C drive is my OS E is where I want to put downloads, etc. For some reason, the E drive mirrors much of what I have under my personal files on the C drive, as if it's being shared. If I delete it from the E drive, it will delete it from my C drive.

Ive tried going to my C drive on these folders/files and right-clicking and choosing Stop Sharing. But it doesnt keep the files from showing on the E drive.

Anyone know why this started in the first place and how I can stop it?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 x64
Is sounds like nothing is being mirrored, but simply that your user folders are on E: and C: just has the placeholders to them.
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    8250 x86 + 7 SP1 x86 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86
    CPU
    P4 3.4 GHz HT
    Motherboard
    MSI-7211
    Memory
    OCZ 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    HIS AGP HD 3850 Turbo Ice-Q
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
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    Acer x223w
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    1680x1050
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    WD Caviar Black 1 TB Sata II, WD 400 GB Sata I, WD 120 GB Sata I
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    Logitech Classic Keyboard 200, Dell RT7D20
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    Logitech M510
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    2 MByte/sec Down, 250 KByte/sec Up
Is sounds like nothing is being mirrored, but simply that your user folders are on E: and C: just has the placeholders to them.

I just found something out. If I uncheck View Hidden Files, the files go away from the E drive. However, why should they show up there in the first place?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 x64
Is sounds like nothing is being mirrored, but simply that your user folders are on E: and C: just has the placeholders to them.

I just found something out. If I uncheck View Hidden Files, the files go away from the E drive. However, why should they show up there in the first place?

The files aren't going anywhere; they're just being hidden.

You probably set your user folders (Libraries) to use the locations on E:

In Windows Explorer, on the left pane, right click any of the Libraries and choose Properties.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8250 x86 + 7 SP1 x86 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86
    CPU
    P4 3.4 GHz HT
    Motherboard
    MSI-7211
    Memory
    OCZ 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    HIS AGP HD 3850 Turbo Ice-Q
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer x223w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Black 1 TB Sata II, WD 400 GB Sata I, WD 120 GB Sata I
    PSU
    300W generic
    Case
    Cybertron
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keyboard 200, Dell RT7D20
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
    Internet Speed
    2 MByte/sec Down, 250 KByte/sec Up
I have two hard drives connected to my computer. C drive is my OS E is where I want to put downloads, etc. For some reason, the E drive mirrors much of what I have under my personal files on the C drive, as if it's being shared. If I delete it from the E drive, it will delete it from my C drive.

Ive tried going to my C drive on these folders/files and right-clicking and choosing Stop Sharing. But it doesnt keep the files from showing on the E drive.

Anyone know why this started in the first place and how I can stop it?

It sounds like you have file syncing turned on for both of those drives to me.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro WMC
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home built
    CPU
    Q9650 @ 4.05 GHz
    Motherboard
    Gforce 780i SLI FTW
    Memory
    8GB Gskill DDR2 1200Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    GTX-480
    Sound Card
    Asus D2 Xonar
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HannsG
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Gskill 120GB SSD
    PSU
    Thermal Take 1000watts
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    Thermal Take Xtreme
    Cooling
    9 fans air cooled
    Keyboard
    G15 logitech
    Mouse
    G9 logitech
    Internet Speed
    50mbps
I have two hard drives connected to my computer. C drive is my OS E is where I want to put downloads, etc. For some reason, the E drive mirrors much of what I have under my personal files on the C drive, as if it's being shared. If I delete it from the E drive, it will delete it from my C drive.

Ive tried going to my C drive on these folders/files and right-clicking and choosing Stop Sharing. But it doesnt keep the files from showing on the E drive.

Anyone know why this started in the first place and how I can stop it?

It sounds like you have file syncing turned on for both of those drives to me.

Oh yeah maybe. Or the new File History service. I don't know what that does though because I've disabled it since day 1.

I just looked though and it does say it copies user files to another backup location. So that's probably it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8250 x86 + 7 SP1 x86 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86
    CPU
    P4 3.4 GHz HT
    Motherboard
    MSI-7211
    Memory
    OCZ 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    HIS AGP HD 3850 Turbo Ice-Q
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer x223w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Black 1 TB Sata II, WD 400 GB Sata I, WD 120 GB Sata I
    PSU
    300W generic
    Case
    Cybertron
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keyboard 200, Dell RT7D20
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
    Internet Speed
    2 MByte/sec Down, 250 KByte/sec Up
I ended up having to re-install Windows. I ended up initially deleting files that showed up on the E drive that were actually on the C drive and it screwed things up.

I did check that File History was not active. So I have no clue what happened. However, after re-install I am not having any of these problems anymore. Still have my network issue where I have to run troubleshooter after Sleep/Standby but other than that things are fine now.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 x64
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