Redirect User Folder 'My Documents'

[Pat Garard]

G'Day All,

I will be reinstalling Xp Pro on a "Mature" PC that I will donate to a
Grandchild.

Next, I would like to redirect ALL users' data folders/files ('My Documents') to
drive D:.

I believe I need to alter the profiles for the Default User, and of course any
existing a/cs.

I do not have the faintest idea how this may be done - could someone please
advise?

 

[Klaus Jorgensen]

After serious thinking Pat Garard wrote :

I will be reinstalling Xp Pro on a "Mature" PC that I will donate to a
Grandchild.

Next, I would like to redirect ALL users' data folders/files ('My Documents')
to drive D:.

I believe I need to alter the profiles for the Default User, and of course
any existing a/cs.

I do not have the faintest idea how this may be done - could someone please
advise?

If you are installing XP from scratch, use an installation answer file.
Put these two lines in an "unattend.txt" file on a floppy and run the
CD based installation:

[GuiUnattended]
ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings\"

XP will check for an answer file on a floppy during install.
For other answer file features, have a look at this:
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/

 

[DL]

A simple method would be to loggon to the win account, then rt click My
Documents and select the move option.
If you move each users Documents folder to D then all users would have
access to each others, is that what you want? and since you appear to be
donating it to a single user is it neccessary for all the profiles?
On the assumtion you are doing this for backup purposes there are many
utilities that will copy all docs to another location.
And if drive D is another partition on the same disk, it makes no difference
as if the disk fails so do all partitions
So what is the purpose for this that you have in mind?

 

[Pat Garard]

Thanks DL - I have two physical drives and would like to maintain a kind of
separation between software and user-created data. I am not concerned with
"Application Data", "Local Settings" ... etc, only with "Fred's Documents",
"Mary's Documents" etc etc.

I appreciate your response,

Pat

 

[Pat Garard]

Thanks Klaus - no floppy on the new PC.

Cheers,

Pat

After serious thinking Pat Garard wrote :

I will be reinstalling Xp Pro on a "Mature" PC that I will donate to a
Grandchild.

Next, I would like to redirect ALL users' data folders/files ('My Documents')
to drive D:.

I believe I need to alter the profiles for the Default User, and of course
any existing a/cs.

I do not have the faintest idea how this may be done - could someone please
advise?

If you are installing XP from scratch, use an installation answer file. Put
these two lines in an "unattend.txt" file on a floppy and run the CD based
installation:

[GuiUnattended]
ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings\"

XP will check for an answer file on a floppy during install.
For other answer file features, have a look at this:
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/

 

[DL]

Then simply loggin to the user account, and use the move option available
from My Documents properties

 

[Pat Garard]

Thanks DL - I really appreciate that!

Pat

Then simply loggin to the user account, and use the move option available from
My Documents properties