Solved Need help restoring Docs, Pics and Videos user folders

[joenaz2003]

Hey, this is my first time on the forum so please excuse this issue is here and I couldn't find it in search.
I installed a NAS drive and created default folders on it for Docs, Pics and Videos. 2 Weeks ago my NAS drive died on me so not having the directories is causing my PC to run pretty slow. I've tried the tutorial on restoring defaults but I think due to the fact the my present and past default directories are no longer there it's not working. Can anybody help with this?

Thanks in advance for your time,
Joe

 

[Brink]

Hello Joe, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if using OPTION TWO in the tutorial below may be able to restore your user folders.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[joenaz2003]

Thank you for the fast reply. I have begun Option 2. Turns out I can see all my folders but the path is pointing to my NAS so I have modified them all in regedit without downloading the ZIP file. Did I jump the gun on that?. My other question is I don't have a My Documents but I do have Personal. Is this the same?

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Joe.

Yes, you could change them manually if you like instead of using the REG files in OPTION TWO for the registry location exactly as how they are in the NOTE box at the top of the tutorial. Be sure that you do all of the other steps as well though or it will not work.

That's correct. In the registry, "Personal" is for the "My Documents" folder. The table under step 19 can help show you more on this.

 

[joenaz2003]

OK this is what I got after following all the directions in option 2.

When I click on Library (See attached pic)
Documents Library now has 3 locations, 1 is public
Pictures has 2 locations, 1 is public
Videos and Music don't have the users location

But when I go to c:\users\mJoeNaz all folders are listed. (see attached Pic)
There is only 1 Documents folder
Also Music and Videos do not have the Location tab in properties

 

[Brink]

It sounds like a registry setting may still be off. Try Option Two again, but using the REG files along with all of the other steps exactly as outlined in the tutorial.

 

[joenaz2003]

OK will do. I'll let you know how it turns out

 

[joenaz2003]

It's getting better. I re did everything for My Documents, My Music, and My Videos.

Documents now comes up when I issue the shellersonal in search. However there are still (2) users\JoeNaz\ locations yet only 1 folder.

My Music and My Videos still does not have a location tab and only a public location in the library. Also the shell string does not bring them up

 

[joenaz2003]

I have an update. I did something with the properties off of the list on the right of the start menu and managed to get the 2nd documents location to disapear.

I then manually added \users\joenaz\music and \users\joenaz\video as a new save location under the properties tab but they still do not have the location tab and come up as mucis (C) and video (C) in my library (see attached)

 

[Brink]

That's great news so far. You would only have the "Locations" tab if it's opened from inside the C:\Users\joenaz folder.

 

[joenaz2003]

OK it's fixed. I had to delete the music and videos folders from \users\joenaz and then re did everything all from the beginning.

When I was done the shell:... search still wasn't working so I rebooted.

After re boot the locations were there but in duplicate again.

I then chose properties for music and videos went to location and did restore original and the duplicates were gone.

I want to thank you for your help it's greatly appreciated. Now I have 2 more PC's to do.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

 

[joenaz2003]

You wouldn't happen to know anything about rescuing data from a crashed 1T Buffalo NAS drive formatted with XFS partitions would you?

 

[Brink]

If the HDD itself died and no longer works, then it's usually gone for good.

 

[joenaz2003]

It's not dead per say. I pulled it out of the NAS enclosure and installed it directly into my PC. Then purchased Windows UFS Explorer to rescue the data. Turns out the drive is formatted XFS and has 6 partitions. The last one being the data partition. I couldn't get the data off or back it up with UFs because it would have taken an estimated time of 200+ hours and I didn't want to risk damaging the HDD any further. So after some reading I built an Ubuntu hard drive for my machine and was able to back it up with a program called GNU ddrescue. Now I'm just trying to find a way to read that image file. Or find out if just imaging the data partition and not the entire drive was a poor choice. I still have the bad NAS drive intact so I can always do it again, I'm just putting my feelers out you know?

 

[Brink]

I wish I could help, but I do not have any experience with XFS partitions. You might create a new thread about it to see if someone may know of a way for you.

 

[joenaz2003]

OK. I'll do that. Thanks again for all your help.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. I hope that you will be able to recover your data soon.