11 personal folders messed up.

[tanner]

Hi,

I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
first try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
folders under Administrator...

The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
is as follows.

Bert
Desktop
Contacts
Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
Desktop
Documents
...the rest are fine, then

Under the C:\drive I have

Local Disk C
Users
Administrator
Favorites(yellow)
Contacts
Contacts(yellow)
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
...the rest are fine.

Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Yep, looks like a mess. The user folders should fall in one level below the
user account folder, like:

Bert
Desktop
Contacts
Desktop (this would be a duplicate, which is likely what happened)
Documents

Local Disk C
Users
Administrator
Favorites(yellow)
Contacts
Desktop
Documents
Downloads

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[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

I would start in the Properties dialog of each personal folder, click on the
'Location' tab and use the 'Restore Default' option. If you don't see a
'Location' tab, Windows doesn't think the folder is one of your personal
folders.

If you're having trouble locating a folder, use the "shell:" command from
the Start Search box or the Run dialog:

shellersonal

will open your Documents folder. The other names to use with this command
are:

Contacts
Desktop
Downloads
Favorites
Links
My Music
My Pictures
My Video
SavedGames
Searches

Once you find out which Contacts folder is the 'right' one, we can worry
about the duplicate.

 

[tanner]

tanner;581496 Wrote:












Hi Tanner,

In addition to the other posts, you can use this as a guide to try and
get them back to their default locations.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/107990-personal-user-shell-folders-...

If all else fails, create yourself a new Administrator account and
delete the old one after transfering what you do not want to lose to the
new one.

Shawn

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Thank you all for the advise. I decided to create a new user and
delete the old one. The problem now is that all the hidden files under
the old one "/user/appdata/..." that contain temp files and program
files are still there. I can't seem to be able to delete them. I think
it's a permissions thing. How would I deal with that? On a side
question, My new user is Tanner_2. After I delete the old user can I
rename my existing user Tanner?

Thanks again.