Vista - help with missing documents folder

**shmish** · 04-24-2008

Hi,

I had relocated my Documents and Pictures to folders on a separate drive (E:DATA), using the techniques mentioned in the tutorials here and elsewhere. Everything worked okay.

Yesterday I moved my OS onto a new hard drive and the link to the Documents and Pictures got messed up. I think this because the letter for the DATA drive was changed to G:DATA. My other personal folders (the ones I never modified) are okay. Right-clicking on the Documents and Pictures folders reveals them to be "normal" folders. The location tabs are missing.

I checked the registry in the user shell folders and modified the Pictures and Personal to G:\documents and G:\Pictures. Rebooted, but still no luck. The folders don't link to the DATA drive, and nothing has changed in terms of the location tab missing.

Tonight I will try the shell commands as mentioned in one of the tutorials, but if that doesn't work (not sure if it is applicable to my situation) then what next?

Thanks!

**garysgold** · 04-25-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by shmish

Yesterday I moved my OS onto a new hard drive and the link to the Documents and Pictures got messed up. I think this because the letter for the DATA drive was changed to G

ATA. My other personal folders (the ones I never modified) are okay. Right-clicking on the Documents and Pictures folders reveals them to be "normal" folders. The location tabs are missing.

Shawn Brink created a tutorial that might help. Hope so.
Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

Gary

04-24-2008	#1 (permalink)
shmish Vista Home Premium 32bit 7 posts	help with missing documents folder Hi, I had relocated my Documents and Pictures to folders on a separate drive (E:DATA), using the techniques mentioned in the tutorials here and elsewhere. Everything worked okay. Yesterday I moved my OS onto a new hard drive and the link to the Documents and Pictures got messed up. I think this because the letter for the DATA drive was changed to G:DATA. My other personal folders (the ones I never modified) are okay. Right-clicking on the Documents and Pictures folders reveals them to be "normal" folders. The location tabs are missing. I checked the registry in the user shell folders and modified the Pictures and Personal to G:\documents and G:\Pictures. Rebooted, but still no luck. The folders don't link to the DATA drive, and nothing has changed in terms of the location tab missing. Tonight I will try the shell commands as mentioned in one of the tutorials, but if that doesn't work (not sure if it is applicable to my situation) then what next? Thanks!
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04-25-2008	#2 (permalink)
garysgold Vista Ult 64bit Windows 7 64 bit Server 2008 RC2 864 posts	Re: help with missing documents folder Quote: Originally Posted by shmish Yesterday I moved my OS onto a new hard drive and the link to the Documents and Pictures got messed up. I think this because the letter for the DATA drive was changed to GATA. My other personal folders (the ones I never modified) are okay. Right-clicking on the Documents and Pictures folders reveals them to be "normal" folders. The location tabs are missing. Shawn Brink created a tutorial that might help. Hope so. Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder Gary
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