Vista - Moving the Vista equiv. of "My Docs" to "F" drive

I've just been instructed on how to move the XP "My Docs/Pics/etc." to a
different drive, away from the OS, whilst maintaining their special
properties.
Having Vista Ultimate on my Main PC, I've struggled for a year with the
set-up that was installed, and every time I want to file something, I have to
painfully navigate to my "F" (data) drive, and the required folders.

I don't know anyone else with Vista, so nt sure if what I have is usual.
On the desk top, I have a folder "Admin", holding a variety of folders that
seem to be the ones that are opened when ever I try to "save".
Is this normal?
If so, is there a prescribed way to "move" it to my data drive whilst
maintaining any special properties with which it may be imbued??

Hello Six,

This can help show you how to change (move) the default location for your user folder to the other drive.

Personal User Shell Folders - Move Location

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink, your link has scared me from doing anything at all!!
First off the screenshot of the music folder properties window shows a row
of 5 tabs, mine has 2 rows of 3 tabs. the extra one is "Sharing".
I have an inbuilt fear of following instructions that don't quite correspond
to what happens lol.

The intro also seems to say that doing this will sever any links that your
programmes have with these files!!

I have no idea which bits of software use them.
Strikes me that Vista has made life unnecessarily difficult for folk like me
to use it in comfort and convenience.

Am I destined to continue hunting for the "MyDocs: Videos: Music" folders
that I have over the last year created on my "F" drive.?


"Brink" wrote:

Hello Six,

My screenshot didn't have the Sharing tab because I have it disabled. That's all.

You can tell if any program is using the "Documents" folder if it has a folder in it. If you follow each step one by one, then you should not have a problem doing them. Plus, using the downloads in OPTION THREE in the tutorial below makes restoring the default location real easy if you decided to undo it.

Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

It's up to you, but unless you really need the hard drive space, then I would leave it as default.

Oh Brink!
How I wish I had not been tempted by your link to attempt moving these
blessed Blue Folders!
I've now got them all on my "F:\" drive, and I've stuffed them with the
folders I've been using for the respective items.
Now, I cannot access any of these shared blue folders from my laptop.
Furthermore, It is not now possible to create links in the Favorites folder
using IE7

What am I to do??
panic stricken!


"Brink" wrote:

Update, if you're still willing to help me Brink!
Just repeated the same actions over again,
"Share"...."Already shared , change permissions?"
"Yes"...no changes made>"Share">Continue...done.

Did this a number of times changing nothing, and eventually got to share
Music: Video and pictures.
Documents still intransigent though get the response from the lappy..."The
network name cannot be found"

2am here, so at least I can go to bed on a good score.... Geoff 3 : Machine 2.

Hope you can give me some ideas to try on : -
"Documents" (sharing) and Favorites, (association with IE7)

"six-h" wrote:

Hi Six,

You can use OPTION THREE in the tutorial below to restore the default location for the Favorites folder (must be done for it to work in IE) and the Documents folder.

Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

"six-h" <sixh@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1E50C080-8089-4BCD-A5DF-4798162A19A1@xxxxxxNo this is NOT normal.
The default location for your data is C:\Users\{your account name}\

Something must have been done to your machine to have this "Admin" folder on
the desktop.
Do you log-in with an account name of "Admin" by any chance? if so then
possibly this "folder" is not a folder at all but a shortcut...