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Old 08-03-2007   #2 (permalink)
Ian Betts
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Re: Migrating Documents Folder from Xp



"Timster" <a@anon.com> wrote in message
news:FC3B2464-6C9A-44B6-A552-E4DA65CA4BA8@microsoft.com...
> Here's a problem I have with Vista. I generally always backed up my
> documents folder in XP. If I select everything in the My documents folder,
> a few XP system files get copied as well, mainly shortcuts to 'my music',
> 'my videos' and 'my pictures' and the desktop.ini files. I have found out
> that in Vista, if these files are in the documents folder (and you can't
> see them because they are hidden system files) that all burners I've tried
> will have a problem with this. They won't see all the folders and they
> will add 'my picures' etc folder to the files to be burned. Why did MS so
> this? I can just see all kinds of people have problems with this as I
> would think that most people back up the documents folder. Anybody else
> see this. I've doen the work around by viewing the system files and
> deleting them but those who aren't so computer literate are going to have
> problems.
> Timster
>

What's the problem then. Restore just puts then back. They are only copied
as backup not removed.

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Ian

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