Network Drives messed up

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Just finished upgrading two computers to Windows 10 and when looking at one of the network computers it shows all kinds of drive folders. I tried disconnecting these drives through the map network but they are still there even after rebooting. ANy idea what is going on? Here's a screenshot of the computer in question when opening it in the Network.
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when opening it in the Network
Can't tell much at all from that picture.
When opening "it" in the Network.
Are you talking about opening another computer from the network in file explorer?
Do these drives show up as mapped network drives in file explorer on your "upgraded computer"
can you right click them in file explorer and choose disconnect?
I'm not sure I understand what the question is or what I'm looking at when I look at what appears to be a cropped image of something.
 
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Those are the folders that were shared on one computer that was upgraded to W10 and you can see it when looking at any computer through the network. If the picture was a bit bigger you can see that there is a folder "pictures" but then there are folders pictures1, pictures2, pictures3, pictures4 which there are none on that drive but they show even in the mapped drive. I don't know what did that. Here's a bigger pic showing just some of the folders so you can see what I'm talking about. CLick on the pic to make it bigger
 

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Looks like the network resources were duplicated (the links that is) 4 to 5 times for some reason.
 

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Strange.
Can you inspect the contents of the ones with the 1 & 2 designations? Are they simply duplicates of the main container?
 
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I just noticed one problem with one of the folders and duplicates, The i folder and it's duplicates were actually a drive # and deleted and merged into another drive. There is no i drive now.
 

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Craziness ..... IDK maybe at during the upgrade if the shares were in place and the drive mapping was also present and connected to other computers then that is the results .... it made three identical maps reflecting three connections and numbering them sequentially.
Who knows that is just a WAG
 
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OK, I have it all cleared up..I think. I removed all mapped drives and on the offending computer I shrank the drive that I had expanded before and made a new i drive volume. I was then able to remove the i drive and it's duplicates. Everything seems to be OK now but still don't know what caused it to begin with, maybe the upgrade did it.
I don't know if I can say this is solved, just fixed the problem.
 

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