Drive letters are muddles when searching

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Zarbol Csar

I am hitting problems with muddles drives and desktop folders.


[FIRST]

The first problem is the CD-ROM drive letter. I call it 'Z'.

When I try and search my CD-ROM, I see the status info on Windows
Explorer going through folders on the C: drive! And when I get the
results they refer to folders on C: but the folder do not contains
the "found" files!

If I drag and drop the folder from the search results pane onto the
desktop then I get an object on the 'Z' drive but with a very
different path.


[SECOND]

When I press a button on an application (CachemanXP) to save a
report, then I get the usual window allowing me to select the
location. I select the desktop at the top of the folder tree by
pressing the up-arrow button repeatedly.

But when i get to "desktop" I get a message which says:

"C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\desktop
refers to a location that is unavailable.

It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or
on a network. Check to make sure that the disk
is properly inserted ... " etc

The "main" desktop on the folder tree seems to be the desktop folder
in user NETWORKSERVICE's Documents & Settings. If I go to the
NETWORKSERVICE folders, then that is where the output actually went!
 
XP said that your command worked. But when I searched on the CD-ROM
drive I saw it run through the folders on the C drive. I got
results for C and for Z (CD-ROM drive).

The C results are actually on the Z drive.

Just like before.

:-(


Larry said:
Try typing "regsvr32 /i shell32" in START-RUN.

-----Original Message-----

I am hitting problems with muddles drives and desktop folders.


[FIRST]

The first problem is the CD-ROM drive letter. I call it 'Z'.

When I try and search my CD-ROM, I see the status info on
Windows Explorer going through folders on the C: drive! And
when I get the results they refer to folders on C: but the
folder do not contains the "found" files!

If I drag and drop the folder from the search results pane
onto the desktop then I get an object on the 'Z' drive but with
a very different path.


[SECOND]

When I press a button on an application (CachemanXP) to save a
report, then I get the usual window allowing me to select the
location. I select the desktop at the top of the folder tree
by pressing the up-arrow button repeatedly.

But when i get to "desktop" I get a message which says:

"C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\desktop
refers to a location that is unavailable.

It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or
on a network. Check to make sure that the disk
is properly inserted ... " etc

The "main" desktop on the folder tree seems to be the desktop
folder in user NETWORKSERVICE's Documents & Settings. If I go
to the NETWORKSERVICE folders, then that is where the output
actually went!
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First:
Make sure you are searching specifically the Z Drive and none of the
system folders or anything else. Copies of files are found throughout
your system. This may just be an odd thing that happens because of
changing your drive letter to Z.

Second:
This is a problem with the CachemanXP software. You really should be
saving the file to Documents and Settings\Your Name\Desktop, not the
networkservice one. You do not use a roaming profile do you?
 
(1) I have had it as the Z drive for a year or so with no trouble.
When this happened I moved it to be the X drive and had the same
problems.

(2) I do not use a roaming profile or anything like that.


Nathan McNulty said:
First:
Make sure you are searching specifically the Z Drive and none
of the system folders or anything else. Copies of files are
found throughout your system. This may just be an odd thing
that happens because of changing your drive letter to Z.

Second:
This is a problem with the CachemanXP software. You really
should be saving the file to Documents and Settings\Your
Name\Desktop, not the networkservice one. You do not use a
roaming profile do you?

----
Nathan McNulty


Zarbol said:
I am hitting problems with muddles drives and desktop folders.


[FIRST]

The first problem is the CD-ROM drive letter. I call it 'Z'.

When I try and search my CD-ROM, I see the status info on
Windows Explorer going through folders on the C: drive! And
when I get the results they refer to folders on C: but the
folder do not contains the "found" files!

If I drag and drop the folder from the search results pane
onto the desktop then I get an object on the 'Z' drive but
with a very different path.


[SECOND]

When I press a button on an application (CachemanXP) to save a
report, then I get the usual window allowing me to select the
location. I select the desktop at the top of the folder tree
by pressing the up-arrow button repeatedly.

But when i get to "desktop" I get a message which says:

"C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\desktop
refers to a location that is unavailable.

It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or
on a network. Check to make sure that the disk
is properly inserted ... " etc

The "main" desktop on the folder tree seems to be the desktop
folder in user NETWORKSERVICE's Documents & Settings. If I go
to the NETWORKSERVICE folders, then that is where the output
actually went!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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