Documents folder and problem with permission...

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Davide

Why in my documents folder i can see shortcuts of My Videos, My pictures, My
Music but if i click on them i get an Access denied error message? It saies
me it's not accessible.
 
Davide,
That's because those aren't actually folders.
They are called junctions, pretty much shortcuts, to get old legacy stuff
from where it was in XP to the new folders in Vista.
in Vista all that stuff is in users drive:\Users\your name.
you can also use a command prompt to see where all the stuff is located now.
The command line:

dir /al

Will just show junctions (or symlinks) in the current directory. Or, a
simple dir /a will work. (thx-Jimmy B)

Jeff
 
Davide,
That's because those aren't actually folders.
They are called junctions, pretty much shortcuts, to get old legacy stuff
from where it was in XP to the new folders in Vista.
in Vista all that stuff is in users drive:\Users\your name.
you can also use a command prompt to see where all the stuff is located
now.
The command line:

dir /al

Will just show junctions (or symlinks) in the current directory. Or, a
simple dir /a will work. (thx-Jimmy B)
Click to expand...

Ok, so why putting those junctions in my documents if i can't use them?
Sorry, maybe i did not understood the real utility of those items...
 
You're just not going at the problem the correct way.

Start | Click on your Name/account | open the folder you want

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Davide said:
Ok, so why putting those junctions in my documents if i can't use them?
Sorry, maybe i did not understood the real utility of those items...
Click to expand...

It's not there for "you" to use. It's there for compatibility with older,
improperly written programs that have the old paths hard-coded in. It will
redirect them to the correct location.
 
I need more of those duh.edu seminars.

What about simply dir (and are you sure dir /al is what you meant to type
because when I do a dir /? I don't see it listed as a switch. When I type
in dir /al I get this Jeff--I can't make that switch work any way I try
typing it, I get:

C:\Windows\system32>dir /al
Volume in drive C is New Volume
Volume Serial Number is B494-F07

Directory of C:\Windows\system32

File Not Found

I did see this on Chris Perillo's site as to dir /al and junctions but I
can't make it work.
http://help.lockergnome.com/vista/Unaccessible-folders-ftopict18292.html

When I type in dir I get this--I am showing you the tail (end):
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 16,384 xmlprovi.dll
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 30,208 xolehlp.dll
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 572,928 XPSSHHDR.dll
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 1,689,600 xpssvcs.dll
11/02/2006 07:41 AM <DIR> XPSViewer
09/18/2006 04:43 PM 2,650 xwizard.dtd
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 295,936 xwizards.dll
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 79,360 xwreg.dll
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 95,232 xwtpw32.dll
11/02/2006 06:18 AM <DIR> zh-CN
11/02/2006 06:18 AM <DIR> zh-HK
11/02/2006 06:18 AM <DIR> zh-TW
11/02/2006 04:46 AM 338,432 zipfldr.dll
2411 File(s) 900,280,041 bytes
87 Dir(s) 5,405,364,224 bytes free

Thanks for reminding me of that command lol although I can't make dir /al
work. I'm having a good time going through the Windows XP Command Line
(MSFT Press) William R. Staneck and seeing how many do and don't work in
Vista. It could take me until the next OS to get half way through this. I
haven't forgotten to email you my stuff on icons.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0735620385

Will get it to you soon. I'm going through the .dlls in the Vista System 32
folder to mine icons manually. and learn which .dlls contian decent ones.
Sometimes I get a good yield, and sometimes disappointing as to the
amount/quality of icons.

Did I tell you when I went to simply substitute an icon for WMP's icon on
the start menu after you called my attention to its being worse than Ugly
Betty it got mad and wouldn't open up until I rebooted? I even tried
installing WMP 11 onto Vista (which sometimes fixed a lot in XP WMP and
still does with WMP11 on XP and it wouldn't let me.)

CH
 
Hmmmm,

Checking with the Dept Chair,
Dr. Ummmm

He reminded me of this,
cd

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>cd c:\Users
c:\Users>dir /al
Directory of c:\Users
11/02/2006 08:00 AM <SYMLINKD> All Users [C:\ProgramData]
11/02/2006 08:00 AM <JUNCTION> Default User [C:\Users\Default]
c:\Users>cd c:\Users\Jeff
c:\Users\Jeff>dir /al
Directory of c:\Users\Jeff
12/11/2006 03:26 PM <JUNCTION> Application Data
[C:\Users\Jeff\AppData\R
oaming]
12/11/2006 03:26 PM <JUNCTION> My Documents
[C:\Users\Jeff\Documents]

An abbreviated list, for you to peruse.
We definitely need more command line info, however,
and I put in a request with Dr. Ummm for continuing education credits

Jeff
 
Where is "start> your name/account"?

your name account reached on the start menu?

Do you mean somewhere in user accounts?

Do you mean to type a file path into run or the combo run box ie7 address
bar you can make by right clicking the taskbar>toobars>address and planting
it in the taskbar?

CH
 
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, <"Chad
Harris said:
What about simply dir (and are you sure dir /al is what you meant to type
because when I do a dir /? I don't see it listed as a switch.
Click to expand...

C:\Windows\system32>dir /?
Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.

DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/B] [/C] [/D]
[/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/P] [/Q] [/R] [/S] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W]
[/X] [/4]

[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.

/A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for
archiving
S System files I Not content
indexed files
L Reparse Points - Prefix meaning
not
When I type
in dir /al I get this Jeff--I can't make that switch work any way I try
typing it, I get:

C:\Windows\system32>dir /al
Volume in drive C is New Volume
Volume Serial Number is B494-F07

Directory of C:\Windows\system32

File Not Found
Click to expand...

There are no reparse points in the System32 folder so you're
seeing exactly what should be returned by that command.
 
Thanks Paul and Jeff for the clarification.

CH
Paul Adare said:
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, <"Chad
Harris said:
What about simply dir (and are you sure dir /al is what you meant to
type
because when I do a dir /? I don't see it listed as a switch.
Click to expand...

C:\Windows\system32>dir /?
Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.

DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/B] [/C] [/D]
[/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/P] [/Q] [/R] [/S] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W]
[/X] [/4]

[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.

/A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for
archiving
S System files I Not content
indexed files
L Reparse Points - Prefix meaning
not
When I type
in dir /al I get this Jeff--I can't make that switch work any way I try
typing it, I get:

C:\Windows\system32>dir /al
Volume in drive C is New Volume
Volume Serial Number is B494-F07

Directory of C:\Windows\system32

File Not Found
Click to expand...

There are no reparse points in the System32 folder so you're
seeing exactly what should be returned by that command.


--
Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld
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