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By: Tzalumen

Tzalumen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:14:49 +0000

One question… I do not have a target tab under properties. Where is the setting to enable this?

By: Neo

Neo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:56:27 +0000

I was messing around with the Documents folder in windows explorer and messed up the registry where it would not work but the registry hack worked for me. So for all you out there this is good just use the registry hack if you have messed up by moving back and forth and if it stops working.

By: Tony M

Tony M — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:08:26 +0000

I whole-heartedly applaud the overall objective detailed in this article. My technique is a variation. I don’t think my method for dealing with this is necessarily better; it’s just what I do.

I don’t touch the location of the My Documents or Documents directories. I ABHOR the whole concept as implemented by Microsoft for these simple reasons:
(1) The “spider’s web” of sub-directories is a needless and annoying challenge to deal with.
(2) By creating your own data directory/sub-directory structure and naming these storage locations as YOU see fit, the naming conventions and structure are much, much easier to become familiar with. You made it … Not Microsoft.
(3) By backing up your data and ONLY your data, for those who don’t save their entire system, this makes their data backups a much, much simpler task to complete.

I recognize that certain programs (e-mail clients and other non-Microsoft programs) sometimes use paths under My Documents, but I deal with those situations individually as they occur.

There certainly may be techniques better than mine for dealing with the My Documents situation, but the way I see it, Microsoft is doing you/us/me no favor by creating this packrat’s nest for storing your data. A simple and neatly organized structure of data directories that I made myself would be much more preferred. Just MHO.

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By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:27:37 +0000

That’s perfect and so easy! Thank you, nice simple explanation.

By: PreciousJames

PreciousJames — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:18:55 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful!!! Exactly what I was looking for!

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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[...] Re: Out of memory- any ideas please?? Below is a link that will allow you to see how much Vista has allocated for system restore and change it as appropriate. It should help you free up around 10Gig if you change the space from 12Gig (15% of your 80Gig hardrive) to 2 Gig (each restore point if 300Mb)… Good Luck Vista Maximum Restore Point Storage It does also sound like you have a partition…How it got there I dont know if you bought it new (they dont sell them partitioned do they??). Below is a link with info on how to move ‘Documents’ to another partitioned drive. Change My Documents Folder Default Location Path in XP and Vista

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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”