How to change location folder "My documents"

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As user X I have managed (how I forgot) to move folder "My documents" to
another drive (d:\My documents\)
I found out that all other users on the pc now also point to drive D when
selecting the folder "My documents".
How can I change this, so for instance user Gast folder "My documents"
points again to C:\C:\Documents and Settings\Gast\My documents\
 
As user X I have managed (how I forgot) to move folder "My documents" to
another drive (d:\My documents\)
I found out that all other users on the pc now also point to drive D when
selecting the folder "My documents".
How can I change this, so for instance user Gast folder "My documents"
points again to C:\C:\Documents and Settings\Gast\My documents\
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While logged on to your account, right click an icon for My Documents and
select Properties. One button there is for moving the folder. There's
another button that will move documents back to the default location of
C:\Documents and Settings\Gast\My Documents\

NOTE that there is only one "C:\" in that path, not two).

Advise caution... Since *everyone* is using D:, XP may try to copy *all*
files from D: to your documents folder. If there's room on C:, no problem
but you'll have sort through the results and dump their files back on to D:

An alternative plan: Create a folder for each user on D: Sort the files to
each user's folder. Then using Properties of "My Documents," change the
target path to D:\<folder name selected for user currently logged on>

When doing the properties, replace the <> marks and text in between them
with the name of the folder created for that particular user.
 
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