# A not-very-interesting Windows mini-screwup

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 7, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374 "2005-07-07T00:23:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/1 "2005-07-07T00:23:33Z")

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Windows Explorer ended up showing me [this](http://link).

I’m pretty sure I don’t have eight J: drives, nor half-a-dozen installations of Macromedia. But at least My Documents are well Shared :dubious:

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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/2 "2005-07-07T00:44:47Z")

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Heh. Let it never be said that Windows isn’t, at the least, good for amusing people.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/3 "2005-07-07T07:27:40Z")

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That’s weird - was that list completely scrollable, or did it break/mess up when you tried to navigate it?

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/4 "2005-07-07T15:02:35Z")

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It looks like everything is backed up though, just in case.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/5 "2005-07-07T15:08:34Z")

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Um…dude, your first and last names are clearly visible. Maybe you don’t care, but thought I should let you know.

In other news, I love your first name. 🙂

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/6 "2005-07-07T22:48:56Z")

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Thanks to the mods, removing my stupidity which **Anaamika** pointed out…“GorillaMan’s Documents” :smack:

If this was an important thread, I’d put the image elsewhere. As it is, I’ll let it wither away…

(FWIW, yes, this was fully navigable, I could access every duplicate version of the folders/drives, with all behaving as you would expect an individiual folder to behave.)

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-not-very-interesting-windows-mini-screwup/311374/7 "2005-07-07T22:52:39Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> In other news, I love your first name. 🙂

Thanks. Although it’s a real pain at times, when I’d like to be ‘Adam’ or ‘Edward’.