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win xp pro
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I'm trying to make sense of what appear to be redundant folders in win xp

There seems to be multiple copies of data folders and I'm not sure where to
point applications for default folders when preferences are available. I'm
guessing it makes a difference for data backups ?

for example, as the administrator, my options appear to be:
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-- "desktop/my documents"
-- "my computer/admin's documents/"
-- "c:/documents and settings/administrator's documents/"

I can't tell if win xp created these folders or if they were created by the
person who installed win xp ( pre installed vendor software )

any recommendations/help ?

TIA
 
Hi,

They are all the same folder/directory, it's just that special properties of
the "My Doc's" folder allow it to appear simultaneously in several
'convenient' locations. I personally wish that 'feature' had an easy means
of being disabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
from the wonderful person said:
win xp pro
-----------------
I'm trying to make sense of what appear to be redundant folders in win xp

There seems to be multiple copies of data folders and I'm not sure where to
point applications for default folders when preferences are available. I'm
guessing it makes a difference for data backups ?

for example, as the administrator, my options appear to be:
--------------------------------------------------
-- "desktop/my documents"
-- "my computer/admin's documents/"
-- "c:/documents and settings/administrator's documents/"

I can't tell if win xp created these folders or if they were created by the
person who installed win xp ( pre installed vendor software )

any recommendations/help ?

They're all the same thing - just different ways of getting there
(confusing, isn't it). The actual data is under c:\documents and
settings\administrator\administrator's documents' (or replace
'administrator' with <user of your choice>).

Guess MS never took the computer science class which said 'having
multiple pointers to a single object is a really bad idea'. 8>.
 
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