Bob said:
My Documents folders appear on the Desktop, My Computer / X's
Documents, and My Computer / Local Disk / Documents and Settings/ X /
My Documents, where X is my name. Why three locations? Are they
supposed to be identical (I don't think they always are)? Can't I
delete two of them as duplicates?
Thanks.
There's only one My Documents folder per account, unless you deliberately
created new ones in other locations.
The location of the actual folder is, by default, c:\documents and
settings\<account name>\My Documents.
If you're logged into another account, other user's My Documents folders
will appear under the name "<Other User Name's > Documents".
What you see on the desktop and in My Computer are shortcuts - references to
the actual My Documents folder.
They aren't copies or duplicates, they are simply references to the one and
only copy. They take up only a few bytes and should not be deleted.
You can verify this by going to the folder in Explorer, and making a marker
file - say, "count_this.txt". Then, search the system for it. You'll
find one copy.
If you don't want to see it on the desktop, choose Start, right-click on My
Documents, and remove the checkmark next to "show on desktop".
One thing you generally don't want to realize is that in trying to save a
very small amount of space, you deleted your data.
HTH
-pk
