What to do to access "Local Settings" and "Application Data"?

[Michael Moser]

Hi - I just bought an Vista laptop and I want to migrate my Outlook.pst
file from one machine to the other (I'm sticking with Office XP - at
least for now).

Now - the most natural thing to me seemed to just copy over the .pst
file from "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook" to the new machine. But strange enough on the
new system the access to the user's (i.e. my own!) "Local Settings"
sub-directory is denied!?! How to I override that???

I checked under the folder's security settings and noticed that not the
user is the owner of this but "SYSTEM". Do I need to take ownership of
this folder to get access?
I also noted, that "Local Settings" and "Application Data" are actually
just "hard links" (junctions?) to some other directory. How does one get
Vista to reveal where this is actually pointing to?

Michael

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Michael

Go to Start and type: cmd.exe In the Results, right click cmd and
select the Run As Administrator option.

Type CD\ (Press Enter)

At C:\>

Type: dir /aL /s > c:\users\<username>\Desktop\JunctionPoints.txt

(Change <username> with your User Name)

Press Enter.

This will place a text file on your desktop that contains all of the
Junction Points on the system. This text file will show the location of the
old folder location in XP and the new location in Vista will be shown in
brackets.