My Music - renamed

[Terry Pinnell]

After changing a hard drive and moving partitions etc, one of the
minor but irritating consequences is that the folder which used to be
called 'D:\My Music' is now being displayed in Explorer as 'D:\Terry
Pinnell's Music'. It refuses to be renamed back the shorter version.
Yet any shortcuts to 'D:\My Music' still work correctly. It's clearly
an 'alias'. How do I get rid of it please?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

After changing a hard drive and moving partitions etc, one of the
minor but irritating consequences is that the folder which used to be
called 'D:\My Music' is now being displayed in Explorer as 'D:\Terry
Pinnell's Music'. It refuses to be renamed back the shorter version.
Yet any shortcuts to 'D:\My Music' still work correctly. It's clearly
an 'alias'. How do I get rid of it please?

I don't think You can.

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[Terry Pinnell]

I don't think You can.

Thanks. Bad news if true ;-(
Can't rename my own folders on a solo, non-networked PC...?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Check the desktop.ini file in the folder that is supposed to be My Music.

The PersonalizedName line should read...

PersonalizedName=My Music

See this..
http://computers.douglasthrift.net/winxpfaq.html#faq3

and
http://computers.douglasthrift.net/winxpfaq/#faq3_my_music

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

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[R. McCarty]

Redirect My Music to another folder location. Once done, rename the
personalized folder to your preferred name. Then if you want it to be
the My Music folder - redirect back to it.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Thanks. Bad news if true ;-(
Can't rename my own folders on a solo, non-networked PC...?

Try rebooting into Safe Mode and see if you can rename either in
Explorer or from a command prompt.

Bill

 

[Keith Miller]

Explorer displays the alias because it still thinks your My Music folder resides elsewhere. You need to correct the path stored in the registry.

You can download and use TweakUI (My Computer -> Special Folders) to change the path or edit the 'My Music' path found under the following reg key:

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"

Good Luck,
Keith

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Explorer displays the alias because it still thinks your My Music folder resides elsewhere. You need to correct the path stored in the registry.

You can download and use TweakUI (My Computer -> Special Folders) to change the path or edit the 'My Music' path found under the following reg key:

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"

Good Luck,
Keith

Many thanks for the follow-ups. Will pursue them all tomorrow.

 

[Hotmail Mike]

I don't think You can.

I never could understand MS's convoluted directory structure.
Welcome to the world of Microsoft ...