No, no shortcuts are involved.
The OS is XP Pro SP 2, file system is ntfs. Only ever used Windows Explorer iirc.
I fixed it by deleting both folders, creating a new folder, and copying the contents in again.
After deleting the first folder, I tried to explore the remaining Takk, it threw an error, something along the lines of 'location reffered to cannot be found'. The folder icon was still there, and it allowed me to delete it.
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