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    Wanting To Move And Rename Vista Documents Folder

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by huntnyc, Mar 28, 2009.

  1. huntnyc

    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

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    Have tried to do some research on this but I am not clear what I need to do. In Win XP, I had my My Documents folder on my E drive and that is where all my Office macros point. Having moved toVista, the defualt Documents folder is now on C and is no longer called My Documents. Instead of rewriting macros to change paths, I want to have my Datam folder to be E:\My Documents. But what is the simplest way to do this and thank you very much.

    Gary
     
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    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks. So with this Know Folders utiltiy I can tell Vista to see the Documents Folder as going to E:\My Documents? Guess that is better than try to rename Documents folder to My Documents but wish it were that simple.

    Gary
     
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    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

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    For clarification on a mnual solution to my problem, if I right-click drag Documents folder to my E drive and then on my E drive rename that transferred folder to My Documents, will that be a problem for Vista? Hope I am making some sense and sorry for the lack of knowledge on my part. Just forgot how I did this on my Sony laptop a few months ago and thanks.

    Gary
     
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    Even easier than right click draggin the folder is to just to tell Vista where your "my document" folder is.

    Open up file explorer and expand your username. Right click documents and hit the location tab. Browse to your new document folder and now the user document link will point to the new folder.

    If you drag and drop the folder and try to move it, you actually are stuck with two links and two folders.

    edit: Vista makes a new documents folder under the C drive if you decide to move the old one. One link will point to the old one and one will point to the new one.
     
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    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

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    Thank you. So in location tab of Documents folder I would put E\My Documents for it to point to. Thanks for all.

    Gary
     
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    sure thing.

    I just read the two links posted above. The second link is where the info is. its like the 5th post down.
     
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