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How to restore user directory configuration - My Documents?
I use the free Dropbox to store most of my non-sensitive personal files. Since I use several computers in the house and for work, I find it handy to have everything right at hand on each of them.
A couple of years ago I found a hack to redirect 'My Documents' to 'C:\Users\Jim\Dropbox'. This worked well enough, but I've found that it's not really necessary and it results in some things being stored there that I don't need taking up the limited space I have on Dropbox. So I want to restore the original configuration, but I'm having some trouble.
First, I used Dropbox's running software to move all the files to C:\Dropbox. That took a little doing, as it complained of open files. I moved a few things that need to be in My Documents to the existing 'My Documents' folder. Mostly RDP files for remote desktop and a couple 'My ..." subfolders, like 'My Data Sources', logged off, back on again, and it was able to move everything.
Then I tried getting My Documents back to the standard My Documents (or Documents), but here's where I ran into problems. First, I noticed two 'My Documents' shown in my user folder. So I figured out which one seemed to be used and deleted the other one. I might have screwed up here, because I did notice the date on the one I deleted was from when the OS was installed.
Then, I was looking at the security settings and under Properties > Security, I notice it says Object name: C:\Users\Jim\Dropbox. So I suspect things aren't quite back to normal yet. I just want to restore the original user folders and My Documents link.