Personal Folder

[WebMattR]

So, I'm having no luck finding anybody trying to do what I'm aiming to, so I'll throw it up here, and see if anyone has a suggestion.

I'm running W7 Pro x64, and want to set it so that when I click on my name (the personal folder link), it redirects me to the my documents I'd used under XP, which are stored on a file server. Anyone does this, or know how?

Everything I find on the topic talks about right clicking on documents and setting the path, but right clicking just lets me add things to my library (which my machine won't let me add, since I don't have search 4.0 installed on the file server).

 

[mickey megabyte]

hi WebMattR, and welcome to sevenforums,

try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html

click on user name in start-menu

right-click on documents >> properties >> location >> move

let us know if that worked.

 

[WebMattR]

hi WebMattR, and welcome to sevenforums,

try this:

click on user name in start-menu

right-click on documents >> properties >> location >> move

let us know if that worked.

When I right click on documents, location isn't there, and move isn't an option.

I suppose I should note, I am a member of a domain (though my account is a domain admin, and I'm a local administrator on this machine), but I don't think that the domain effects the documents locations (since it created a completely new and seperate profile from my XP one).

 

[mickey megabyte]

you did right-click on documents then properties then location?

 

[WebMattR]

I did. It brings up a window called "Document Properties" with a single tab: Library

 

[mickey megabyte]

ah - i think i see what you've done.

left-click on your user name right at the top of the startmenu.

then an explorer window will open up.

now right-click on documents in the right-hand pane.

that should do it.

 

[WebMattR]

I don't have "documents" but I do have "My Documents."* Right clicking on that and bringing up the properties gives me the following tabs: General, Sharing, Security, Previous Versions, Customize. Still no location.


* Sorry for sounding stupid, but I'm trying to be as precise in describing this as I can, just for the sake of keeping it simple for anyone trying to help me.

 

[mickey megabyte]

i'm a bit baffled - all mine have a location tab

let's try a different approach.

type shell:UsersFilesFolder (don't worry about capitalisation) into your start-menu searchbox.

this will bring up the same explorer window as if you clicked on user name in start-menu.



i've already changed my 'my documents' to a root of my 'sammy' partition, so mine doesn't say 'my documents' any more.

anyway, if i right-click it (or any of the other icons in the right-pane), then click on properties right at the bottom, i have a location tab (forget all the other tabs - it's because it's the root of a partition) - then i can move the location away from f: to anywhere else.

 

[alphanumeric]

Try going to C:\Users\(your user name)\ and right click the folder.

 

[mickey megabyte]

alpha - do the steps in my posts work for you?

(i hope i haven't been posting nonsense - again )

 

[alphanumeric]

I've already moved my Documents, Pictures, etc folders. Its one of the things I do after a re-install. I'm not sure if thats going to effect what I see now. Right clicking Documents in my start and selecting properties just opens a windows with a Library TAB, and shows Library locations. It shows me where it is now, on my D: partition, but there is no move option that I can see. There is a "Set Save Location" button but it is grayed out. If open my Libraries and click the Documents folder in there I get the same window. I am almost positive that I went to C:\Users\(My user Name) and right clicking there gave me a Location tab.

 

[mickey megabyte]

no, you don't right-click documents in your start-menu

left-click user name in start-menu, then right-click 'my documents' in the rhs explorer window >> properties >> location

 

[Jacee]

Click on the 'locations' tab ....you'll see "move"

 

[WebMattR]

I've (hopefully) attached a picture of how My Documents appears for me. The more I work with all of you on this, the more I become convinced it's an issue with my being hooked to a domain, and going to start digging through gpedit.msc, and see what I find, if anything.

(though, if anyone else has suggestions, I'll happily listen/follow them)

 

[alphanumeric]

no, you don't right-click documents in your start-menu

left-click user name in start-menu, then right-click 'my documents' in the rhs explorer window >> properties >> location

OK, that works, I can now see the locations tab. Thats the window I saw when I originally moved them. I didn't do it the way you describe though.

 

[alphanumeric]

Click on the 'locations' tab ....you'll see "move"

This is what I was seeing.

There is no locations tab.
But after doing it correctly I got what is shown above, which is the same screen I got when I originally moved my library folders.

 

[Jacee]

Try this ... Computer > C:\ drive > Users > click your user name > right click on My Documents > choose properties > location tab

 

[WebMattR]

I found the same results as my previous example.

 

[alphanumeric]

Try this ... Computer > C:\ drive > Users > click your user name > right click on My Documents > choose properties > location tab

Thats the way I usually do it.

 

[mickey megabyte]

I found the same results as my previous example.

have you tried typing shell:UsersFilesFolder into your start-menu searchbox?

same result i suppose? :huh: