Strange duplicate thumbnail problem

I have done something wrong in the Organizer & I can't figure out what I did. I can see lots of pairs of thumbnails that appear to be identical & if I click on properties between any of these pairs I can see that every detail is identical with the second thumbnail except that one has a tag on it & the second one hasn't.
If I click on either the first or second picture & delete it I then find that the other picture is unconnected. I can restore the picture by using undo. I then select both thumbnails & ask that they be displayed side by side. Only one picture is displayed..
Whats going on & how do I fix it? Are these really duplicates?

I did what you suggested change the name of the thumb5 cache to include 'old' prefix. I reopened the program but nothing happened as far as I can see. I got the catalogue location from File>Catalog location where there are 3 options. All users, current user & Custom location.
It was in the custom location that it listed the catalog. I'm beginning to doubt if I changed the correct folder because both the old & the new folder are only 10.k each & if they have thumbnail data for every picture the file size should be much bigger. shouldn't that be so?
If the program is going to regenerate new thumbnails for all picture I suspect that this might be a good time to change the default size for each thumbnail,correct? I have always noticed that when I click on a large thumbnail that what appears on the screen is being generated by the thumbnail & the results is a clearer larger image.

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I have used both Elements and Lightroom in the past, but have dropped both because of the redundant thumbnails of the same photo when they are moved from one folder to another. Since the complete file only resides on one place other thumbnails are present but only serve to complicate finding the actual file.
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I don't understand your problem. Moving files from within either Elements or Lightroom doesn't create redundant thumbnails.
There has been problems in older versions of Elements where the 'Folders' view was corrupted and did not show the real content of the folders.
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Folder_Location_view
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Without knowing exactly your workflow, it's difficult to understand your problem. Moving files from folder to folder require taking into account the possibility of files with the same name already existing in the destination folder. Do you get files renamed with a suffix in the destination folder ?
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