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Vista - Can't synch My Documents, Pictures, etc?

 
 
Old 10-07-2008   #1 (permalink)
Christoph Boget


 
 

Can't synch My Documents, Pictures, etc?

I have 2 machines that have FolderShare installed -- one is running XP SP3
and the other Vista SP1. For each maching, I created a personal library for
My Documents/Documents, My Pictures/Pictures and Favorites. On the website
I go to:

{XP Machine's} My Documents library -> Synch with new computer -> Select
Vista machine (which is online)

The first 4 options, Documents, Music, Favorites, Pictures, are all grayed
out. Why is it that I cannot select these options to synch between my 2
machines? Is it because they are different OS's? Or perhaps there is no
user specified? I can't imagine that last being the reason because I was
logged in as myself and selected the "My Documents" folder for that account
(and not for my wife's, say).

Am I doing something wrong?

thnx,
Christoph


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Old 10-09-2008   #2 (permalink)
Crammy


 
 

Re: Can't synch My Documents, Pictures, etc?

On Oct 7, 6:14*pm, "Christoph Boget" <jcb_spamt...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> I have 2 machines that have FolderShare installed -- one is running XP SP3
> and the other Vista SP1. *For each maching, I created a personal library for
> My Documents/Documents, My Pictures/Pictures and Favorites. *On the website
> I go to:
>
> {XP Machine's} My Documents library -> Synch with new computer -> Select
> Vista machine (which is online)
>
> The first 4 options, Documents, Music, Favorites, Pictures, are all grayed
> out. *Why is it that I cannot select these options to synch between my 2
> machines? *Is it because they are different OS's? *Or perhaps there is no
> user specified? *I can't imagine that last being the reason because I was
> logged in as myself and selected the "My Documents" folder for that account
> (and not for my wife's, say).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> thnx,
> Christoph
Hi,

The Music, Favorites and Pictures folders in Vista are special
redirected folders from the Document folder.

The best way to add the required folder correctly is to use the full
folder path and not the 'Music' folder within the 'Document' folder.

i.e. use 'c:\users\xxxx\Music' xxx being the username.

I hope that helps?

Craig
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