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| Guest | Vista Command Line I am running the final release version of Vista as a regular user (not admin). In Explorer I see a folder with the path c:\Users\Me\Documents where I have stored all of my documents. However, when I open a command prompt and cd c:\Users\Me\Documents the folder cannot be found. What gives? In C:\Users\Me dir /A:H produces the following line: 02/18/2007 06:41 PM My Documents [C:\Users\Me\Documents] Thanks. |
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| Guest | Re: Vista Command Line Hmm it *should* work as you were doing it. (Working just fine for me, non admin using "cd \users\username\documents") Are you able to open it in a command prompt via explorer? That is, find your documents folder, shift-rightclick and hit "Open Command Window Here"? Don't try and use "My Documents" too, that's a new feature called a Junction for compatibility with pre-Vista apps that are looking for specific locations. A good writeup of it is at http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/jo...on-Points.aspx "rshol" <rshol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C02E5A7E-6AB5-4370-BC99-00177635E881@microsoft.com... >I am running the final release version of Vista as a regular user (not > admin). In Explorer I see a folder with the path c:\Users\Me\Documents > where > I have stored all of my documents. However, when I open a command prompt > and > cd c:\Users\Me\Documents the folder cannot be found. What gives? > > In C:\Users\Me dir /A:H produces the following line: > > 02/18/2007 06:41 PM My Documents [C:\Users\Me\Documents] > > Thanks. |
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| Guest | Re: Vista Command Line I think I have found out that the Green ~\Documents folder is some sort of special folder that is just a pointer to the actual Yellow ~\Documents folder that is the real place where the documents are stored. What's up with that? I'm coming at this from Linux and I must say the guys at Microsoft must stay up late at nights figuring out ways to make things hard to do from the command prompt. |
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