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Documents and My Documents got swapped; win7 pro x64, hppro dtpc
Using windows explorer to do all of this...
Not realizing how this file system works, she deleted all files in Documents because many dupe files made it look like they were accidentally copied there multi times. On realizing what she had done, I promptly restored the recycle bin, hoping everything would return to normal, but all files went into the My Documents folder while the Documents folder ended up with a bunch of (mostly) empty folders originally from My Documents.
Normally, all you see in the Documents folder are documents, but in My Documents there may be sub-folders as well as files. After the gyrations, there were folders in the right pane of explorer under Documents, and only files in the right pane under My Documents, as if Documents and My Documents got swapped around. To make it more confusing, rt clk on My Documents, properties showed the number of files plus 66 folders! But no folders show up in either explorer pane.
I copied everything from the two folders to another folder for safety, then tried restoring the two folders. The result was to have only files in My Documents and folders in Documents as before, so, no help. No backups either. oye!
Any help will be gratefully accepted. tom