When I use Windows Explorer (Vista) and click on the My Documents folder, I
get a message stating "My Documents is not accessible. Access is denied."
Upon further investigation, I found that there is another folder titled
Documents, which can be viewed with Windows Explorer. So Vista just renamed
the folder and is keeping the old folder non-accessible .
The word ‘My’ has been dropped and the location of XP folders like Documents
& Settings and History are no longer in the same place. They are displayed
when ‘hidden files’ are displayed but they are ‘Junctions‘, i.e. they are
there for historical reasons so that old programs that would normally use
them are redirected to the new Vista locations. Junctions can be recognised
by having a little curly up-arrow like a shortcut and cannot be accessed.
In Vista you can see a list of these folders using a command prompt. Go to
the Windows Orb (Start), type cmd and press Enter. Now type DIR /AL (Note the
space and the capitals are for clarity only) and press Enter. The results
will be a list of all the Junctions for the user folders, showing the name of
the old XP user folder and the name of the new folder in brackets.
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