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| Guest | Vanishing files Admittedly Newbie question.... I've had Vista for about two days on a brand new PC I tried to save a text file attachment from an email. The file was saved to a subfolder folder of an application in Program Files. I appeared to save correctly, no issues identified. I go to the subfolder to open the file, and it doesn't show up in the subfolder I go back and try to save the file again and am asked if I want to overwrite the existing file? What gives? I am adminstrator on the PC, so should (I think have complete access) but the file in question is somehow hidden. Any clues what is happening? Thanks in Advance |
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| Guest | Re: Vanishing files Seydlitz The Program Files folder is security restricted in Vista. You should not attempt to use this folder for storing files. Files that are saved to this folder will automatically be virtualized. When you open the folder where you saved the file, look on the Command Bar and you should see a 'Compatibility Files' button. Click this button and it will open the folder where the file was actually saved. This will be somewhere in the Virtual Store folder of your user account folders. If you want to save files, you should save them to a folder somewhere in your user account folders. ( ie: C:\Users\your username ) -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Seydlitz" <Seydlitz@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A07CB4D4-B4C2-4C21-844F-83DDD2ABFC6B@xxxxxx
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