My Documents/Pictures/Video Location Change

I have a new laptop, a Dell Precision M4400. The first thing I did was a format and a clean install with Windows 7 Ultimate. So far, so good, and it certainly seems to be an improvement over XP.

Being an oldtimer, I like to partition the hard drive and put all of the data folders onto the D: drive. It makes it easy to backup, and lets me reload the operating system without losing information.

Windows 7 lets you change the location of the user folders My Documents, My Music, My Pictures and My Videos. I used that feature to move all to the D: drive.

Since then, in Windows Explorer there folders that were moved are shown as multiples of the D: drive.

In Computer > Local Disk C: > Users > My Account >

the folders are listed as below:

AppData
Contacts
Desktop
Downloads
Favorites
Links
Saved Games
Searches

If, however, I click on my account shown under Desktop in the Explorer, the folders are:

AppData
Contacts
Data D:
Data D:
Data D:
Data D:
Desktop
Downloads
Favorites
Links
Saved Games
Searches

It's not a big deal, but it does seem a bit odd. The location option no longer appears when I right-click the moved folders, so it seems that their existence as those default folders is no longer valid, or it isn't possible to restore them to their original location.

I thought of deleting my account, and creating a new one but that seems a bit extreme as all other functions are good. The registry does show the My Documents, etc. as all being the D: drive, but editing that to the original location does nothing.

As I say, it's certainly something I can live with, but if anyone has a suggestion, fire away.....

Stephen

Shawn,

Thank you for the quick response, I'll try that right away.

Shawn,

It worked like a charm. Where I made my mistake the first time in moving the folders was with not creating another folder with a similar name first. I dumped everything to the D: drive, so that was what the folder reference was pointing to......