Start Menu Item

[JamesJ]

I dragged and dropped an mdb file from a folder I call
Data Files which is the Documents folder that I moved the location to.
But the properties of the Star Menu item shows the
file location elswhere.. in Users\<<myusername>>\Appdata\Windows....
Why is this?

James

 

[Justin]

I dragged and dropped an mdb file from a folder I call
Data Files which is the Documents folder that I moved the location to.
But the properties of the Star Menu item shows the
file location elswhere.. in Users\<<myusername>>\Appdata\Windows....
Why is this?

James

A lot of the older common folder paths have been turned into virtual folders
that all point back to the USERNAME folder. Yes, it's very annoying.

 

[JamesJ]

I need to explain.
This is an Access db that I dragged and dropped a week ago from
within the Data Files folder to the start menu.
From within Access I've made changes to this db in Data Files but the
changes were not reflected in the 'shortcut' from the start menu.
This was the file I originally dropped to the start menu a week ago.
Is this normal??

James

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Did you drag and drop the actual file, or a shortcut? Does the icon on the
Start Menu have the shortcut arrow?

 

[JamesJ]

The actual file.

James

Did you drag and drop the actual file, or a shortcut? Does the icon on
the Start Menu have the shortcut arrow?

 

[Leo]

I think it may be a shadow copy.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

If it is the actual file it will not update. Right click on the file and select
Send to > Desktop (as shortcut) then drag to Start Menu.

 

[JamesJ]

But, wouldn't I need to keep the shortcut on the desktop?

James

 

[JamesJ]

Some ends do!

James

I think it may be a shadow copy.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

If that is where you want to keep it, yes.
In your original post you said you wanted it in the Start Menu.

 

[JamesJ]

That worked fine. I thought dragging the desktop shortcut to the start menu
created a link to the desktop shortcut.

Thanks,
James

 

[Cal Bear '66]

You should use right click dragging, then you will be given the opportunity of
moving or copying. Also, new to Vista are right click options of Pin to Start
Menu and Add to Quick Launch

 

[Justin]

You should use right click dragging, then you will be given the
opportunity of moving or copying. Also, new to Vista are right click
options of Pin to Start Menu and Add to Quick Launch

As well as Shift+Right+Click

Open command window here
Copy as path

Very helpful.

 

[Doug]

The Start Menu is intended for shortcuts, not datafiles. The latter are
normally stored somewhere like C:\Users\JamesJ\Documents\AccessDBs. Getting
a good file structure needs planning, and this should be done as soon as
possible, otherwise the whole system will become increasingly difficult to
navigate and retrieve from as time passes. That said, with Vista's good
search capabilities, putting all your documents in "Documents" and then
searching for them there as needed may be a better solution than having an
over-extensive tree structure of document subfolders. You could then have
project folders (within Documents perhaps) containing only shortcuts,
leaving the underlying datafiles always in the one folder. Doug