My Documents

[Rich]

I used the transfer settings and now I have My Documents folder and I can't
open it and I don't know if I can delete it as my documents are in Documents
folder now. Can I delete the Old My Documents folder or is it there for a
reason? Why can't I open it? I don't get choices of opening as admin it just
tells me you can't access this folder.

Thanks for any help, Rich

 

[BurrWalnut]

As you have noticed the word ‘My’ has been dropped and the location of XP
folders like Documents & Settings and History are no longer in the same
place. They are displayed when ‘hidden files’ are displayed but they are
‘Junctions‘, i.e. they are there for historical reasons so that old programs
that would normally use them are redirected to the new Vista locations.
Junctions can be recognised by having a little curly up-arrow like a shortcut
and cannot be accessed.

The examples above are now in \users\{user
name}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows.

In Vista you can see a list of these folders using a command prompt. Go to
the Windows Orb (Start), type cmd and press Enter. Now type DIR /AL (Note the
space and the capitals are for clarity only) and press Enter. The results
will be a list of all the Junctions for the user folders, showing the name of
the old XP user folder and the name of the new folder in brackets.

 

[Rich]

As you have noticed the word 'My' has been dropped and the location of XP
folders like Documents & Settings and History are no longer in the same
place. They are displayed when 'hidden files' are displayed but they are
'Junctions', i.e. they are there for historical reasons so that old
programs
that would normally use them are redirected to the new Vista locations.
Junctions can be recognised by having a little curly up-arrow like a
shortcut
and cannot be accessed.

The examples above are now in \users\{user
name}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows.

In Vista you can see a list of these folders using a command prompt. Go to
the Windows Orb (Start), type cmd and press Enter. Now type DIR /AL (Note
the
space and the capitals are for clarity only) and press Enter. The results
will be a list of all the Junctions for the user folders, showing the name
of
the old XP user folder and the name of the new folder in brackets.

Great now I know to leave things alone!

Thanks for the help, Rich