In the process of redirecting personal folders for starage of data on D
Drive I somehow managed to lose a few ? Can they be created again ?

Hey Shawn,

I'm new to Vista. I also had some major issues with the personal folders. By default they are on C:\ drive, and i wanted to move the essentials like music, videos, pictures, downloads, documents, contacts etc to my E:\ which is used for storage. Now when i first moved the downloads, the icon screwed up, So i thought I'd restore default and then for some reason my downloads folder became my documents folder. I had similar problems with every other folder and now I have lost my video folder, I have lost my downloads, and now have 2 documents folders which are (indestructable and linked together at the same time) 2 picture folders with the same problem, and the rest are fine but had trouble listening to me as well. I read your article about trying shell:command and also opening the regedit. Still no luck. Please help, I'm snagged.

Joronamo.

Excellent reference article Shawn.

Since posting my problem I found the missing personal folders in the recycle
bin, restored and problem solved.

"Brink" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Warren,
>
> Ooops. This tutorial may be able to help you. Check to make sure that
> the missing user folders have the default location set for them in the
> registry and restart the computer to restore them.
>
>

Personal User Folder - Restore Missing Folder

>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
> Warren;811909 Wrote:

> > In the process of redirecting personal folders for starage of data on D
> > Drive I somehow managed to lose a few ? Can they be created again ?

>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*

There's a much slicker way of moving personal folders to your E:\. Create a
set of blank folders under E:\UserName and then redirect storage location,
using the "Location" tab in the Properties of each Personal folder. This
way the Personal folders look like they're in the same place on C:\Users\
UserName but in actuality they are stored on E:\User Name.

You don't disturb the structure of the user profiles, while achieving the
goal of saving Personal folder data on your Data drive rather than System
drive.


"Joronamo" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hey Shawn,
>
> I'm new to Vista. I also had some major issues with the personal
> folders. By default they are on C:\ drive, and i wanted to move the
> essentials like music, videos, pictures, downloads, documents, contacts
> etc to my E:\ which is used for storage. Now when i first moved the
> downloads, the icon screwed up, So i thought I'd restore default and
> then for some reason my downloads folder became my documents folder. I
> had similar problems with every other folder and now I have lost my
> video folder, I have lost my downloads, and now have 2 documents folders
> which are (indestructable and linked together at the same time) 2
> picture folders with the same problem, and the rest are fine but had
> trouble listening to me as well. I read your article about trying
> shell:command and also opening the regedit. Still no luck. Please help,
> I'm snagged.
>
> Joronamo.
>
>
> --
> Joronamo

Hello Brink,

I tried Option 2 for the 20th time and still no luck. However I did some investigating. Turns out when enter shell:downloads in the search bar, it opens up my documents folder which contains my recieved files and sharing folder for wlm. When i search shell:documents no results are found and likewise with videos. So turns out my Downloads turned into my documents, and my documents and videos are missing altogether.

Please help,
Joronamo.

Hi,
I made a new account, except I cbf going through changing all the new settings and preferences, its like moving house. There has got to be some other way, please Im desperate.

Joronamo.