Comments on: Change My Documents Folder Default Location Path in XP and Vista

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:02:22 +0000

jey me got sorta the same problem!
but i have two disk drives and i made the my music folder locat to another drive for example: (C:)was where it 1st was. then i made it go to (E:) and theni had to take the (E:) drive out one day and then i plugded it back in and from then i have had problems (the ‘My Music’ Folder) was missing for lost? and cant find it again? help?

I am running a custom built computer:
with 2 hard drives:
(C:) = 160GB and
(E:) - 370GB

and im running Windows Vista 64BIT!
and having probs?
any ideas on how to fix this?
beecause i need to run ITUNES and ITUNES needs the My Music Folder for it to Work?
thanks
Sam

if you have an idea or know how to fix it please email me on:
tairea_samuel@hotmail.com

thanks heaps
Sam

By: connersw

connersw — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:20:42 +0000

How can I do the same thing for Shared Documents? It doensn’t give me a target tab option.

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By: Frozy

Frozy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:36:36 +0000

How can i find my lost music folder in my documents or create new my music folder?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:13:28 +0000

This is great, my question has a twist. How do I change the default folder in Vista for saving documents. For example, I’m in outlook and there is a Word attachment. I right click on it and Save As. Vista instantly goes to the Documents folder. I would prefer to use my temp folder instead as the default location. How can I change that? Thanks.

By: Laila

Laila — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:12:06 +0000

Thank you so much for the tip! I went through the steps!

By: Kelley Vice

Kelley Vice — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:28:46 +0000

If you don’t have linkd (which is in the Win2k Resource Kit), you can just use Vista’s built-in junction tool, mklink. The command, if you’re moving your “My Documents” folder to D:\Documents, would be:

mklink /D “My Documents” d:\Documents

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:37:13 +0000

You left out a step… in Vista, there is also a Junction to the Documents folder, called “My Documents”. This should be updated for legacy programs that look for it, and because otherwise you leave an apparent directory that is always “unavailable.”

It can be updated with:
c:&cd \users\
linkd “My Documents” /D
linkd “My Documents”

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