actual path to Documents and Settings files

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I want to write a simple batch file to copy my data files (My Documents folders), email folders (Identities in Local Settings), address book (*.wab in Application Data) and internet favorites (under my user name in Documents and Settings) onto another drive on our network for safekeeping in the event of a crash. The copy command can not find the files using the paths I name based on what shows up under C:\Documents and Settings in Windows Explorer. I don't see the directories and files set up in the same relationship when I dig through them in a command prompt window. Where are all these files actually located in the file system set up by XP, so I can copy them with a batch file?
 
They are all within the Documents and Settings profile, unless
they have been redirected. If the last is the case, they may be
anywhere so you would have to check that out on the actual box.

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Roger Abell
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MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
kaih4 said:
I want to write a simple batch file to copy my data files (My Documents
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folders), email folders (Identities in Local Settings), address book (*.wab
in Application Data) and internet favorites (under my user name in Documents
and Settings) onto another drive on our network for safekeeping in the event
of a crash. The copy command can not find the files using the paths I name
based on what shows up under C:\Documents and Settings in Windows Explorer.
I don't see the directories and files set up in the same relationship when I
dig through them in a command prompt window. Where are all these files
actually located in the file system set up by XP, so I can copy them with a
batch file?
 
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