XP 'My Documents Folder' - is rolocation possible?

[Guest]

After two recent OS driven system crashes I now have my iTunes library on a
seperate physical volume so that 'back-up' is easy and when re-installing the
system and program software I simply point it ot the library which was, of
course, unaffected by the crash as it was on a seperate physical drive. Is
it possible to do this with the 'My Documents' folder in XP. i.e. Have XP do
all its normal work but just use a 'My Documents' folder on a seperate
physical drive? I have achieved this for Outlook Express and its settings and
messages by using adivce from the OE newsgroup.

Thanks
Jack

 

[Tom Porterfield]

After two recent OS driven system crashes I now have my iTunes library on a
seperate physical volume so that 'back-up' is easy and when re-installing the
system and program software I simply point it ot the library which was, of
course, unaffected by the crash as it was on a seperate physical drive. Is
it possible to do this with the 'My Documents' folder in XP. i.e. Have XP do
all its normal work but just use a 'My Documents' folder on a seperate
physical drive? I have achieved this for Outlook Express and its settings and
messages by using adivce from the OE newsgroup.

Yes, this is fairly straightforward. Right click on the My Documents
icon on your desktop and select Properties. When the properties tabs
come up, make sure you are on the Target tab. There it will show the
current location of your My Documents folder. Click the Move button to
change to a different location. Once you have selected the new
location, you will be prompted if you want to copy the contents from the
current location to the new location.

 

[Guest]

Thanks - so simple but it would have taken me hours to find it on my own - if
ever! Exactly what I wanted.

Jack

 

[Rock]

After two recent OS driven system crashes I now have my iTunes library on
a
seperate physical volume so that 'back-up' is easy and when re-installing
the
system and program software I simply point it ot the library which was, of
course, unaffected by the crash as it was on a seperate physical drive.
Is
it possible to do this with the 'My Documents' folder in XP. i.e. Have XP
do
all its normal work but just use a 'My Documents' folder on a seperate
physical drive? I have achieved this for Outlook Express and its settings
and
messages by using adivce from the OE newsgroup.

In addition to Tom's post, TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys, provides an
easy way to redirect each of these "My" folders. Get it from here.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Thanks - so simple but it would have taken me hours to find it on my own - if
ever! Exactly what I wanted.

No problem, glad I could help.

 

[chizzy]

Does all that mean that using XP Home Edition I would be able to keep My
Documents on a separate drive and use the "make available offline" function
and would Windows automatically synchronise on log on/off? Or is that only
available for NT?