Moving My Documents folder to another partition

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Wilfred

I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however what I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My Documents
showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or My Documents,
I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as being in My
Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D: but I
can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
 
It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is moved to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the My Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared Documents", "Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions to My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message indicating that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location [C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back from "Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Wilfred said:
I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D: but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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Hi Wilfred,

How exactly are you moving it? It sounds like you are creating a mount
point. Also, what file system is D using? If it's using FAT32, then the
option to privatize will not be available.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is moved
to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the My
Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This
Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared Documents",
"Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except
for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's
Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the
entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions to
My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because
there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My
Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the
blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message indicating
that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location
[C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back from
"Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Wilfred said:
I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however
what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to
find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D: but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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From my Desktop, I:
1.. Clicked on Start
2.. Right clicked My Documents
3.. Clicked Properties
4.. Clicked Move
5.. Clicked on D:
6.. Clicked OK
The D drive is using NTFS.

FYI, when I first got this computer, I partitioned the 80GB hard drive in order to separate two large music and picture collections from my boot drive. I have about 4500 songs and about 10,000 digital images on D:. I had this collection on a previous computer and it was stored on C: and after a disastrous experience with my computer that required me to reformat C: I lost all my music. It took me weeks to rip my CDs again.

Since then, I have maintained all data on the partitioned D: drive. I had been successful in reinstalling Windows a couple of times without any need to restore my data to D: Of course, after the Windows installations, I had to take ownership of D: in order to access the data and I had to move the newly created My Documents folder to D: and move the data that was stored in D: to the newly-moved My Documents folder.

The problem now is that I do not see a My Documents folder in D anymore and that the disk seems to be My Documents, not allowing me to use D: to store other data that I wish to keep separate from My Documents.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Wilfred,

How exactly are you moving it? It sounds like you are creating a mount
point. Also, what file system is D using? If it's using FAT32, then the
option to privatize will not be available.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is moved
to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the My
Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This
Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared Documents",
"Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except
for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's
Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the
entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions to
My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because
there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My
Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the
blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message indicating
that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location
[C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back from
"Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Wilfred said:
I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however
what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to
find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D: but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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Make a folder in your D: drive, call it anything you like - My Documents - in fact you can do this within the select a destination dialog box when you click Move. Then when you move the My Documents Folder select this folder in the D: drive. Not the drive itself. If this succeeds, and I do not see why it should not, then in the sharing tab select the option make this folder private.
 
Hi,

Try clicking on D: and typing in "My Documents" following it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

From my Desktop, I:
1.. Clicked on Start
2.. Right clicked My Documents
3.. Clicked Properties
4.. Clicked Move
5.. Clicked on D:
6.. Clicked OK
The D drive is using NTFS.

FYI, when I first got this computer, I partitioned the 80GB hard drive in
order to separate two large music and picture collections from my boot
drive. I have about 4500 songs and about 10,000 digital images on D:. I
had this collection on a previous computer and it was stored on C: and after
a disastrous experience with my computer that required me to reformat C: I
lost all my music. It took me weeks to rip my CDs again.

Since then, I have maintained all data on the partitioned D: drive. I had
been successful in reinstalling Windows a couple of times without any need
to restore my data to D: Of course, after the Windows installations, I had
to take ownership of D: in order to access the data and I had to move the
newly created My Documents folder to D: and move the data that was stored in
D: to the newly-moved My Documents folder.

The problem now is that I do not see a My Documents folder in D anymore and
that the disk seems to be My Documents, not allowing me to use D: to store
other data that I wish to keep separate from My Documents.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Wilfred,

How exactly are you moving it? It sounds like you are creating a mount
point. Also, what file system is D using? If it's using FAT32, then the
option to privatize will not be available.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is moved
to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the
My
Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This
Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared Documents",
"Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except
for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's
Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the
entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions
to
My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because
there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My
Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the
blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message
indicating
that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location
[C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back
from
"Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Wilfred said:
I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however
what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other
than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to
find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D:
but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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I think that did the trick. Thanks! Somehow the icons for the system folders got changed in the process and My Documents, My Music, and My Pictures now have plain folder icons but the disk now has the My Documents folder in it.

This MOve process is confusing because I had moved this folder before and never typed the full path of the destination. I've been working with computers since the very early DOS days and Move has always meant Move to me. In every other use of the Move command in Windows, the system copies the folder to a destination and deletes the original. The Move button appears to move only the sub-folders.

Thanks again for your help.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

Try clicking on D: and typing in "My Documents" following it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

From my Desktop, I:
1.. Clicked on Start
2.. Right clicked My Documents
3.. Clicked Properties
4.. Clicked Move
5.. Clicked on D:
6.. Clicked OK
The D drive is using NTFS.

FYI, when I first got this computer, I partitioned the 80GB hard drive in
order to separate two large music and picture collections from my boot
drive. I have about 4500 songs and about 10,000 digital images on D:. I
had this collection on a previous computer and it was stored on C: and after
a disastrous experience with my computer that required me to reformat C: I
lost all my music. It took me weeks to rip my CDs again.

Since then, I have maintained all data on the partitioned D: drive. I had
been successful in reinstalling Windows a couple of times without any need
to restore my data to D: Of course, after the Windows installations, I had
to take ownership of D: in order to access the data and I had to move the
newly created My Documents folder to D: and move the data that was stored in
D: to the newly-moved My Documents folder.

The problem now is that I do not see a My Documents folder in D anymore and
that the disk seems to be My Documents, not allowing me to use D: to store
other data that I wish to keep separate from My Documents.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Wilfred,

How exactly are you moving it? It sounds like you are creating a mount
point. Also, what file system is D using? If it's using FAT32, then the
option to privatize will not be available.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is moved
to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the
My
Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This
Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared Documents",
"Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except
for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's
Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the
entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions
to
My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because
there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My
Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the
blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message
indicating
that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location
[C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back
from
"Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however
what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other
than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D: or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to
find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D:
but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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No problem, glad to have helped. Sometimes things don't go as expected and
with "special" folders this is often even more so.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

I think that did the trick. Thanks! Somehow the icons for the system
folders got changed in the process and My Documents, My Music, and My
Pictures now have plain folder icons but the disk now has the My Documents
folder in it.

This MOve process is confusing because I had moved this folder before and
never typed the full path of the destination. I've been working with
computers since the very early DOS days and Move has always meant Move to
me. In every other use of the Move command in Windows, the system copies
the folder to a destination and deletes the original. The Move button
appears to move only the sub-folders.

Thanks again for your help.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

Try clicking on D: and typing in "My Documents" following it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

From my Desktop, I:
1.. Clicked on Start
2.. Right clicked My Documents
3.. Clicked Properties
4.. Clicked Move
5.. Clicked on D:
6.. Clicked OK
The D drive is using NTFS.

FYI, when I first got this computer, I partitioned the 80GB hard drive in
order to separate two large music and picture collections from my boot
drive. I have about 4500 songs and about 10,000 digital images on D:. I
had this collection on a previous computer and it was stored on C: and
after
a disastrous experience with my computer that required me to reformat C: I
lost all my music. It took me weeks to rip my CDs again.

Since then, I have maintained all data on the partitioned D: drive. I had
been successful in reinstalling Windows a couple of times without any need
to restore my data to D: Of course, after the Windows installations, I
had
to take ownership of D: in order to access the data and I had to move the
newly created My Documents folder to D: and move the data that was stored
in
D: to the newly-moved My Documents folder.

The problem now is that I do not see a My Documents folder in D anymore
and
that the disk seems to be My Documents, not allowing me to use D: to store
other data that I wish to keep separate from My Documents.




Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Wilfred,

How exactly are you moving it? It sounds like you are creating a mount
point. Also, what file system is D using? If it's using FAT32, then the
option to privatize will not be available.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

It appears that this cannot be done after the My Documents folder is
moved
to the D: drive. Somehow the folder isn't listed on D:. When I open the
My
Computer window, there is a section that shows: "Files Stored on This
Computer". In it, there are several document folders: "Shared
Documents",
"Guest's Documents", "Wilfred's Documents", etc. All the folders (except
for mine) show the term "File Folder" in the "Type" column. "Wilfred's
Documents" shows the term "Local Disk" as its Type. It seems that the
entire disk is My Documents. I don't have a way of granting permissions
to
My Documents that are different from the permissions of the disk because
there is no My Documents "folder". The entire D drive seems to be My
Documents. FYI, if I try dragging any file on D:/ to My Documents on the
blue panel on the left side on the window, I get an error message
indicating
that the source and destination file names are the same.

FYI, when I restore the My Documents folder to its default location
[C:\Documents and Settings\Wilfred\My Documents] it's type changes back
from
"Local Disk" to "Folder".



Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040#XSLTH4157121124120121120120

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

I have a partitioned hard drive [d:]. I moved the My Documents folder
to
it. I did this by clicking on the Move button in the My Documents
properties box.

Everything in My Documents was moved to d:\ without a problem however
what
I
wanted to accomplish was to:

a) store all my data in d:

b) maintain the privacy of My Documents so that only I would be able to
browse through the My Documents folder and open files.

c) allow other users of the computer to also read/write to d: (other
than
the My Documents folder).

I had done this on an older computer and it worked perfectly: My
Documents showed as a folder in D:. On this computer, when I open D:
or
My Documents, I get the same list of files. Everything in D: shows as
being in My Documents and there is no folder labeled My Documents

I have played around with the security settings and I have managed to
find
ways to prevent others
from opening my files but what I really want is to deny access to My
Documents without denying access to D:.

I'm in a Catch-22: I can get the system to allow others access to D:
but
I can't prevent them from seeing the files in the My Documents folder.

Any suggestions?
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