Windows 7 user folders Redirection question - how to remove old, inactive placeholders?

Hello

I have just directed my documents folders user (Document, music, photo, video, Desktop, etc.) of my drive C:\ (128 GB SSD drive) in my D:\ Drive (1 TB HARD drive) for reasons that are obvious to many. I followed the instructions in the following link: redirect a folder to a new location

However, after redirected each back, C:\ drive My now still has placeholders of old for the following folders: music, photos and videos (highlighted in the attached image below) and I can't something with them (delete, rename or hide). What bothers me, for two reasons:

1. they are always there LURKING and I can finish by clicking on them instead of the redirected folders (as you can see there are three folders corresponding to my images, videos and music). I get the message "Access denied" whenever I click on them (I am the only user of that PC and the Admin, of course);

2. in the second place, I might want to redirect folders in the future to their original location, which will cause a problem because the placeholder is where, in my opinion.

Could someone please help and guide me how to remove these placeholders? Remove these placeholders allowed and recommended, or not?

I would be very grateful!

Thank you!

Frank

Hi Frank,.

You don't want to remove these.  It is possible from the command line with a few advanced controls, but it will break.  Many programs, even parts of Windows itself, look for these files at this location.  These placeholders function as junctions and will redirect all programs to the new location if they try to use them.  But if you delete placeholders, these programs will not redirected properly and they will fail.

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