SOLVED Can't delete orphaned folder in user account

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So I moved a folder under a user account on a new dell windows 10 PC I was setting up from the C: drive to the D: drive (using right mouse click drag/move). The folder transferred fine but the folder name still exists under the user account and cannot be deleted. Trying to delete the folder under the user account fails, requires admin permissions (I'm running as admin and I'm the only user on PC). Opened up an admin cmd window and typed dir /q, here's a snippet of the result (the problem folder is "My Stuff"):

dir /q

Directory of c:\Users\crad

04/15/2019 02:48 PM <DIR> BUILTIN\Administrators .
04/15/2019 02:48 PM <DIR> NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM ..
04/15/2019 02:22 PM <DIR> DESKTOP-Q1746OB\crad Links
04/15/2019 02:22 PM <DIR> DESKTOP-Q1746OB\crad Music
04/15/2019 02:51 PM <DIR> ... My Stuff
04/15/2019 02:17 PM 213 DESKTOP-Q1746OB\crad myrsync.log
04/14/2019 11:39 AM <DIR> DESKTOP-Q1746OB\crad OneDrive

Notice the owner of dir "My Stuff" is "..."?? How the heck do I remove this directory, everything I've tried so far has failed. Google failed to come up with an answer. Running windows 10 version 1809 OS build 17763.437

Any help is appreciated. I done broke my puter ...
 
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If the 'path' is accurately shown for the
04/15/2019 02:51 PM <DIR> ... My Stuff
item, could be the 3 periods preceding the name is the problem. For some reason the copy of your line shows a lot of spaces [until I posted this] which could add to the problem. My choice in correcting is to boot to a Linux LiveDVD and deleting outside of Windows running.
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Thanks, but the three dots are the owners name, which is wrong (hence the corruption). Not sure how it got like that but on another forum someone suggested rebooting in safe mode and removing via cmd window, which worked.
 

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