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Old 07-26-2007
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Moving Document folder (pictures folder) etc to a network drive
Hello.

I'm a system administrator who is evaluating Vista for the first time to see
if it is worth deploying across our company. We need new machines, and I
would like to take advantage of the newest technology.

This is very peculiar behavior that I have encountered when trying to change
the location of the "Documents" folder on windows Vista to a network drive:

I will preface this by saying that under XP this was quite simple. I moved
the My Documents folder to a mapped drive and everything worked seamlessly.
Its much easier to make backups from a network drive. I'm not fond of any
syncing software or scenarios.


So Here it is:

When I attempted to change the location of the "Documents folder, it did a
couple of things:
1. Instead of moving the "Documents" folder, it simply created a new
shortcut to the mapped drive.
2. Changed the name of the shortcut item from Documents from the start
menu

So now I have this folder listing:

-Jereviscious
1.Jviscious (the network folder)
2.Documents.


-If I click on the "Documents" folder properties now, there is no option to
change the location. It is permanently locked on the C drive.
-I cannot delete the "Documents" folder and rename the "Jviscious" folder to
Documents.
-I can reset the "Jviscious" folder back to the original location and it
(Jviscious) will disappear, and I can access the location property of the
"Documents" folder once again.

I would like to use the convention that microsoft has built here so that
users will keep their files organized, but If I can't work around this
problem, I will simply place a shortcut to the network drive and rename it
to "My Documents"

I apologize if this posting is unclear. I will attempt to clarify if anyone
has any further questions.

Thank You




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