User Accounts-My Documents

[Guest]

I have been using XP for about 6 months now and consier
myself somewhat computer literate, however, I am still
baffled by User Accounts in XP. I think I may have set
my computer up incorrectly. I am the only person who
uses this computer, I am the administrater. Under User
Accounts it shows "Bill Gates" Computer Administrator,
Password Protected. (obviously not really Bill Gates).
In Windows Explorer, I have a Folder named "Bill Gates
Documents" and a Folder named "My Documents".
Both "Documents" Folders have identical sub-folders and
files since all paths are the same C:\Documents and
Settings\Owner\My Documents. Is this normal to have
two "My Documents" Folders?
Thanks

 

[Jason Haynes]

I find this kind of goofy myself, but it is normal. There is only one copy
of your documents folder, located in the documents and settings directory.
The 'my documents' is just a pointer to the actual location. It's just
placed at the top of the directory structure for quick access.

 

[Guest]

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
I find this kind of goofy myself, but it is normal. There is only one copy
of your documents folder, located in the documents and settings directory.
The 'my documents' is just a pointer to the actual location. It's just
placed at the top of the directory structure for quick access.




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[C Smith]

I asked the same basic question on another newsgroup....difference is that
whenever I open a file from My Documents, the file opens and I get a message
stating that I can only have 1 copy of the file open at a time. When I did a
search on the file name, I got 2 hits, both with the same properties....one
in My Documents and one in the documents and settings directory. I would
like to try to "fix" this as the message is annoying and it certainly
appears from Windows Explorer that there are 2 copies of everything in My
Documents, right down to file sizes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
C. Smith

 

[David Candy]

Choose Detect and Repair from the Help menu. There is only one copy of a file just different paths to it.