What happened to my favorites?

[Jim Ludwig]

Hi all,
My 3 yr. old daughter likes to play Purble Place on my laptop, but
unfortunately sometimes she goes exploring and opens up lots of other
programs. I have even seen her dragging and dropping objects before. The
problem is, she's done something to my Favorites in Internet Explorer. When
I click on the Favorites star, I get an error message that says "Location
Not Available." There is a lenghthy message that says
"c:\users\ludwig\favorites\favorites\favorites refers to a location that is
unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer or on a network.
Check to make sure the disc is properly inserted, etc..." So I did some
exploring (no pun intended!) and found that she somehow dragged my Favorites
folder in the Pictures folder. I thought it was just going to be a matter
of dragging it back to the proper location, but that still didn't work. I
still get the same error message and furthermore, it won't even let me
create new favorites. I seems like it works to create new ones, but when I
click on the star, they are not there. I tried using system restore, but it
didn't work. In fact, IE would work at all when I dd that, so I reverted
back. Does anyone know how to repair my Favorites folder?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[meerkat]

Hi all,
My 3 yr. old daughter likes to play Purble Place on my laptop, but
unfortunately sometimes she goes exploring and opens up lots of other
programs. I have even seen her dragging and dropping objects before.
The problem is, she's done something to my Favorites in Internet
Explorer. When I click on the Favorites star, I get an error message
that says "Location Not Available." There is a lenghthy message that
says "c:\users\ludwig\favorites\favorites\favorites refers to a
location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this
computer or on a network. Check to make sure the disc is properly
inserted, etc..." So I did some exploring (no pun intended!) and
found that she somehow dragged my Favorites folder in the Pictures
folder. I thought it was just going to be a matter of dragging it
back to the proper location, but that still didn't work. I still get
the same error message and furthermore, it won't even let me create
new favorites. I seems like it works to create new ones, but when I
click on the star, they are not there. I tried using system restore,
but it didn't work. In fact, IE would work at all when I dd that, so
I reverted back. Does anyone know how to repair my Favorites folder?
Thanks,
Jim

Try to do a `System Restore` to just before she mucked
up your machine James.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Right click the folder under Windows Explorer at C:\Users\<user>\Favorites,
choose properties. On the Location tab, click the button to restore default
location.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[oscar]

Since you allow a 3 year old to "play" and "explore" on your laptop, you
should expect problems. At this point, your daughter may have mucked up your
OS beyond just misplacing the Favorites folder. The best advice: To maintain
stability of your OS and computer, get your daughter a computer of her own
and don't allow others on yours.

 

[C.Skaggs]

With all the answers you've received, one of them should get you back on the
road.
My comment is about Windows SteadyState. If you're going to allow a three
year old to use your laptop as a toy, you have to prepare for the enevitable
to happen. Install Windows SteadyState, and use it. it will fix these kinds
of issues with a simple reboot.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

 

[Jim Ludwig]

I'm not sure why it didn't work the first time, but I tried dragging and
dropping my Favorites folder to the correct location again and this time it
worked. So problem solved! Thanks for all the replies.
Jim