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Old 05-15-2007   #1 (permalink)
Fernando Smith


 
 

Unable to change personal folders locations

Hi,
I have all my documents and such stored on an external hardrive. everything
was properly linked in my personal folders to correct locations, recently
they reverted back to C:\Users\...\Documents and I dont have the ability to
redirect them back to the external drive. My files are still there but
applications are saving to the default location

any help would be greatly appreciated

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Old 05-15-2007   #2 (permalink)
Dyawlak


 
 

Re: Unable to change personal folders locations

Click the "new" start button - right click Documents and select properties
click the Location Tab and change it there. Worked for me on Business 64.


"Fernando Smith" <Fernando Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:49BFC6A5-56D4-48E0-AE81-D95566A5B277@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have all my documents and such stored on an external hardrive.
> everything
> was properly linked in my personal folders to correct locations, recently
> they reverted back to C:\Users\...\Documents and I dont have the ability
> to
> redirect them back to the external drive. My files are still there but
> applications are saving to the default location
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated


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Old 05-15-2007   #3 (permalink)
Fernando Smith


 
 

Re: Unable to change personal folders locations

I tried that and under location no buttons are there to move or restore...
the location is listed and I cannot edit it in any way (I can copy it fwiw)

"Dyawlak" wrote:

> Click the "new" start button - right click Documents and select properties
> click the Location Tab and change it there. Worked for me on Business 64.
>
>
> "Fernando Smith" <Fernando Smith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:49BFC6A5-56D4-48E0-AE81-D95566A5B277@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > I have all my documents and such stored on an external hardrive.
> > everything
> > was properly linked in my personal folders to correct locations, recently
> > they reverted back to C:\Users\...\Documents and I dont have the ability
> > to
> > redirect them back to the external drive. My files are still there but
> > applications are saving to the default location
> >
> > any help would be greatly appreciated

>

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