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Re: Start Menu Item
The Start Menu is intended for shortcuts, not datafiles. The latter are
normally stored somewhere like C:\Users\JamesJ\Documents\AccessDBs. Getting
a good file structure needs planning, and this should be done as soon as
possible, otherwise the whole system will become increasingly difficult to
navigate and retrieve from as time passes. That said, with Vista's good
search capabilities, putting all your documents in "Documents" and then
searching for them there as needed may be a better solution than having an
over-extensive tree structure of document subfolders. You could then have
project folders (within Documents perhaps) containing only shortcuts,
leaving the underlying datafiles always in the one folder. Doug
"JamesJ" <jjy_darwin@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:%23weNOyKpHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> The actual file.
>
> James
>
> "Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message
> news:e%238a6tKpHHA.1244@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Did you drag and drop the actual file, or a shortcut? Does the icon on
>> the Start Menu have the shortcut arrow?
>>
>> --
>> I Bleed Blue and Gold
>> GO BEARS!
>>
>>
>> "JamesJ" <jjy_darwin@adelphia.net> wrote in message
>> news:eqva6qKpHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>I need to explain.
>>> This is an Access db that I dragged and dropped a week ago from
>>> within the Data Files folder to the start menu.
>>> From within Access I've made changes to this db in Data Files but the
>>> changes were not reflected in the 'shortcut' from the start menu.
>>> This was the file I originally dropped to the start menu a week ago.
>>> Is this normal??
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> "Justin" <None@None.com> wrote in message
>>> news:38644388-D72A-4DAF-85D5-859720646F8B@microsoft.com...
>>>> "JamesJ" <jjy_darwin@adelphia.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:O1eNPNKpHHA.4512@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>>I dragged and dropped an mdb file from a folder I call
>>>>> Data Files which is the Documents folder that I moved the location to.
>>>>> But the properties of the Star Menu item shows the
>>>>> file location elswhere.. in Users\<<myusername>>\Appdata\Windows....
>>>>> Why is this?
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> A lot of the older common folder paths have been turned into virtual
>>>> folders that all point back to the USERNAME folder. Yes, it's very
>>>> annoying.
>>>
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>>
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