Documents folder

[Guest]

Hi, I was attempting to move the Documents folder to another partition of my
hard drive when I lost it and can't restore it from the recycle bin - is
there any way I can get it back? It was empty so not worrying about it's
contents, just need to have it restored as it was originally.

All advice welcome!

Regards,

Chris Neill.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Chris

If you have Vista Business or Ultimate, you can use the Previous Versions
features to get that folder back. Navigate to C:\Users\Username. Right click
your username and select Properties/Previous Versions Tab. Select the latest
version of the folder and click the Restore Button.

 

[Guest]

Thanks but I have Home Premium edition and just cannot work out how I might
get the system to create another Documents folder even if it can't restore
the original one.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[dean-dean]

In the Start Search box on the Start Menu, type "shellersonal" (no
quotation marks), and press Enter on your keyboard. This will open the
Documents folder as it is assigned, location-wise, in your registry. If it
is not where you want it, right-click an empty spot in the Documents folder,
choose Properties, and go to the Location tab to move it.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Chris

Open Windows Explorer and go to C:\Users\Username. (Where Username is the
name of the account you are logged on with)

Right click in the right side pane of this folder and select New/Folder.
Name the new folder Documents.

Open Notepad and Copy/Paste the text between the lines into Notepad.
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[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-235

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Click File/Save As and save the file to the new documents folder that you
just created.

Right click the new new Documents folder and select Properties/Customize
Tab. In the top section, click the drop down menu and select Documents
there. Click Apply/OK.

Close and re-open Windows Explorer. The new documents folder should be there
as it was before you lost it.