Documents folder not recognized as "My Documents"
David Witus
recognizes it as such. So, whenever I re-start my PC, Vista creates a new,
empty Documents folder in the same username folder and makes that the
Documents folder for purposes of Favorite Links, etc. I must have deleted an
attribute of some sort of the pre-existing Documents folder so now the
system views it as just a plain old folder in the username folder.
I just tried merging the two folders thinking that might accomplish it, but
I get a message that says "you need permission to do that" then asks me to
retry or cancel - neither of which, or course, get me there.
So, how do I give it back whatever attribute the Documents folder needs to
make Vista recognize it as the Documents that should be treated as "My
Documents" was treated in Windows XP?
Keith Miller MVP
shell:personal<Enter>
This should open the folder that Vista thinks is your user's 'Documents'
folder.
If you view the Properties for this folder, there should be a 'Location' TAB
(not to be confused with the Location label on the 'General' tab. The
textbox contains the file system path to the folder. If it's not the folder
you want, use the 'Move' button to point it to the location you want.
However, you mention the new folder containing 'Favorites' & 'Links', and
those are normally under the User Profile folder (C:\Users\UserName).
If you could run the following commands from 'Start Search', each will open
an Explorer window. If you right-click once in the 'BreadCrumbs' bar and
select 'Copy Address', you can paste those addresses into a text file and
post them back with your reply.
shell:Personal
shell:Favorites
shell:Links
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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Sandy J
get anywhere. When I click on "Properties" for the Documents folder, nothing
opens.
Keith Miller MVP
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Sandy J" <San...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sandy J
start search box. It opens to the documents folder that windows thinks my
documents are in, but they are in the other one. This folder has a blue
icon, the one where my docments are is a yellow folder icon. I have tried
moving my documents to the blue folder, but that just creates another folder
in the document folder and buries the documents one layer deeper. I cannot
rename or remove either document folder.
Keith Miller MVP
at the bottom where it says 'Folders' so you can see your folder tree. You
should be able to right-click the blue folder icon and view properties -- is
that not working?
Click once in the Breadcrumbs bar of each folder to view the path to each
folder.
If you want the empty folder that Vista currently thinks is Documents folder
to remain your Documents folder, just open the other folder, press <Ctrl>+A
to select everything, right-click & select 'Copy'. Open the empty folder,
right-click & select 'Paste'. Once you're sure everything has copied over,
you can delete the contents from the other folder.
If you want the folder that currently has your documents to be designated as
the Documents folder, use the 'Move' button I mentioned in the previous post
to point it at the folder that currently contains your documents, say yes
when asked about moving all files, this will give your Documents folder its
special icon & delete the now unused folder.
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Sandy J" <San...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sandy J
The Blue icon folder has a location tab that reads:
C:\Users\Sandy\Documents\New Folder\Documents. It is empty. But it is the
default Document folder.
The Yellow icon folder has no location tab but it says in the General screen
that the location is: C:\Users\Sandy. It has all my documents in it.
When I follow your instructions to move the Blue icon folder into the Yellow
icon folder I get this error message: Cannot redirect descendant into
parent. The specified path is invalid.
How did I screw things up so badly? Is there a magical way to just delete
the empty folder? If I could, then wouldn't the default automatically go to
the folder named Documents? I can't delete either folder so the name must
have some signficance.
Thanks for your help.
Keith Miller MVP
Documents folder. Save the zip file to your Desktop, then right-click it &
select 'Extract All...'. If you accept the defaults from expansion, you'll
now have a folder on your Desktop containing a single file,
'DefaultDocumentsEntry.reg'. Double-click this file to merge it, you'll get
a warning, but proceed through it. Log off & log back on and your Documents
folder should be reset to 'C:\Users\Sandy\Documents'.
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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Keith Miller MVP
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Sandy J" <San...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sandy J
such a dummy, but I can't find the attached zip file to extract onto my
desktop.
Keith Miller MVP
attachments don't show up there -- but they do on Google:
At the bottom of the page, you'll see a download link.
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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Sandy J
Keith Miller MVP
You're welcome. Glad it's fixed.
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Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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