USMT clutters "My Documents" folders on new PCs

[Valkan]

How do you make USMT create a new folder to copy all the miscellaneous
documents it finds on the hard drive instead of just dumping them at the
root of the My Documents folder?

I would like it to continue to copy the files that were in the my docs
folder of the old computer to the my docs folder of the new computer, but
put the other files from other locations into a neat place instead of
dumping 20 or 30 random folders at the root level of the My Documents folder
intermingled in with the other documents.
The default behavior makes such a huge mess that it's hard to find the
documents that are supposed to be in My Documents.

 

[Ron Martell]

How do you make USMT create a new folder to copy all the miscellaneous
documents it finds on the hard drive instead of just dumping them at the
root of the My Documents folder?

I would like it to continue to copy the files that were in the my docs
folder of the old computer to the my docs folder of the new computer, but
put the other files from other locations into a neat place instead of
dumping 20 or 30 random folders at the root level of the My Documents folder
intermingled in with the other documents.
The default behavior makes such a huge mess that it's hard to find the
documents that are supposed to be in My Documents.

USMT duplicates the folder structure from the old computer, so the
logical thing to do is to clean up the old computer first, so that
things are properly organized before you transfer them.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Valkan]

I don't know about 3,0, but 2.6 does what I was posting about in the
original post. I forgot to specify the version in case 3.0 has any
different behavior.
Maybe it is not clear what I am talking about. Going all around the company
and manually searching for files and cleaning them up at each workstation is
not logical when we are using this tool to automate.

USMT finds documents with files extension specified from anywhere on your PC
other than from inside other user's profiles and then dumps then all into
the root of the my documents folder of the migrating user on the new. This
makes them easier to find than if it put them in the same location they were
in at the old PC, but it makes a mess of the my documents folder that
wouldn't be there if it simply went one step further and created a subfolder
in My Documents and put the files found in other directories (outside My
Docs) of the old PC there.
I know one of the inf files can be edited and you can specify a new location
for only the files it finds outside of the default my documents folder and
desktop folders, but I don't know which inf file and the syntax needed to do
that.
I need someone to post help with that.

 

[Valkan]

USMT duplicates the folder structure from the old computer, so the
logical thing to do is to clean up the old computer first, so that
things are properly organized before you transfer them.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

Is there anyone here who uses USMT often and knows how to configure the
files than control the placement of the folders?

This is a common question I've searched and found others asking the same
thing, but no one ever provides an answer.
This person below found the fix, but instead of saying what it was, he just
said he found it and left it at that.

http://www.mcse.ms/archive247-2005-7-1742607.html

 

[Guest]

I handled this by modifying the miguser.inf. See below...

[Copy This User State]
copyfiles=Default CopyFiles

[Default CopyFiles]
; Collects file types that are not in a profile saves them to
c:\Temp\MigrationBackup\*
*.doc, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.mpp, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.xls, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.csv, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.ppt, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.pps, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.mdb, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.jpg, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup
*.bmp, c:\Temp\MigrationBackup