Vista - Personal User Shell Folders - Move Location

Hey Shawn,

Dont worry it fixed itself after a reboot. The clone no longer appears, although if it does again I'll let you know. I dont use windows mail, I use live mail which isnt supported by windows contacts so i'll have to manually add the contacts.

Cheers,
Joronamo.

Ok Joronamo. I'm happy to hear that it sorted itself out for you.

Shawn

Well, I am trying hard, but making little progress.


I followed the REDEDIT steps. In the list of available folders, there were two of each: Documents, My Music, My Videos, My Pictures. One folder had a sync icon over the folder image. Those were marked as having location of \\ricstore\users\username\foldername, and were clearly created by some super-computer system that was placing all these folders on some server. The other folder was not editable as far as location, the location tab being absent, but had the location listed as c:\users\username. So, I went to all the sync files, as they were the only ones I could edit location, and keyed in %USERPROFILE%\foldername. I closed regedit and restarted. When I checked these locations again, they had been changed back to the

Hello 4MUL8R, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It looks like your post was cut off before you finished it. You would have duplicates when the user folder was moved to another location and you have another program or something that is still saving something at the original location causing the C:\Users\UserName folder without a Location tab to be automatically created. You should be able to fix this be restoring the default locations of the original folders in the registry. Option Two in this tutorial will help show you how to better.

Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Ok, so this may be a simple question -but - if the program gives you the option of telling it where to put it's "appXstuff" folder, and the default is "C:\user...", could I just change that to "%userprofile%\appXstuff" to avoid the problems outlined above?

Hello Jeff,

Yes, it would be easier to set that option in the program to be directed to a folder location you want it to be saved in instead. If you changed the default location, you can also just redirect the program option to the new location as well for that folder to avoid the recreation of the user folder problem.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

As an update, I did find that a network policy had redirected my documents folder to a server (a corporate deal). This automagically took away the location tab on my documents folder properties window. I have removed the offline file sharing and restored the original folder location, and things are at least in my control now. I do need to get the Vista documents folder redirected to look at d:\ with no current subfolder named documents on that d:\ drive. Is this something I can do, without the official documents subfolder? Or, should I create a documents folder on d:\, move everything into it, then tell Vista that documents reside there?

Hello 4MUL8R,

If you can select a folder, preferably a empty one, on the D drive to be your Documents folder location in the registry, then you might be able to do it without creating another new folder there.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hello!

I want to move THE WHOLE Users folder.
Is there any tutorial on this site or can you please tell me how can I do this?


Thank you!

Hello G0dLik3,

Sorry, but it is not advisable to do that. There are to many items in Vista that are hard coded to the default user folder location. Changing the location would cause a lot of unwelcomed problems. For example, among all the others, Favorites in IE and Contacts in Windows Mail would no longer work in those programs.

Shawn