Question about the My Documents folder.

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I transferred my files over from an old computer running Windows XP Home
Edition SP-2 to my new computer running Windows XP Media Center 2005 and for
some reason I can't copy new stuff to that folder now and need to create a
new "My Documents" folder and transfer all the files to the new one. Can
that be done and is all I have to do is just create the new folder and
transfer the stuff over? I don't want to just do it and then get things
messed up more than they are now.

Thanks for any help.
 
I suspect you will have to reestablish ownership of that old folder in order
to use it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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GeneK

I transferred my files over from an old computer running Windows XP Home
Edition SP-2 to my new computer running Windows XP Media Center 2005 and for
some reason I can't copy new stuff to that folder now and need to create a
new "My Documents" folder and transfer all the files to the new one. Can
that be done and is all I have to do is just create the new folder and
transfer the stuff over? I don't want to just do it and then get things
messed up more than they are now.

Thanks for any help.
 
Depends what you transfered, to where,and how.
You should be using the default XPMC My Documents folder and transferng the
data to that, not the otherway round
 
Ok, let me try to explain this again. Maybe the first post wasn't all that
clear.

I used LapLink's PC Mover to transfer all of my files over from a computer
formatted FAT32 to the new computer that was formatted NTSF. The files are
there and I can access them fine without any problem. The problem comes in
if for example I want to move a file from a different folder or the desktop
to the My Documents folder or any sub-folder. Once I have moved the file, I
cannot again move it or delete it nor can I access it. Every time I try to
move or delete that file I get the error message "Access Denied" That
applied to all the sub-folders too, so what I did was create NEW folders and
then copied everything to the new folder and deleted the old folder. The
only folder I didn't create new was the My Documents folder. And if I forget
and transfer something to that folder, I won't be able to access or delete
it. The only way to get rid of it is to delete the entire folder and I don't
want to do that. So what I was wondering is can I create a My Documents2
folder, copy all of the files and sub folders from the original to the My
Documents2 and then delete the original My Documents folder?

I hope I haven't confused things more now. LOL

Thanks for your input GeneK and DL
 
Transfer 'all of my files'
Did you transfer the My Documents folder or just the data, or did you
tranfer the entire Local Settings /'user' tree
Do you still have access to the old installation and its data

It sounds like it may be a permissions issue
 
Thanks DL but I've already tried the "permissions issue" and still have the
problem. I honestly think it's because of the FAT32 to NTSF that's messing
it up. Once I create a new folder and copy everything to that new folder, I
can drag and drop and copy all day to the new folder without any problem with
accessing the files.

I've been playing with this since December 22 and still don't have the
problem completely resolved and the only folder I haven't re-created is the
My Documents folder. Maybe I'll just copy all of the individual files to the
new sub folders, because all of the sub-folders are new. Maybe when I
upgrade to Vista it'll fix the My Documents folder. LOL

Thanks for all your help.
 
Larry said:
Thanks DL but I've already tried the "permissions issue" and still
have the problem. I honestly think it's because of the FAT32 to NTSF
that's messing it up.
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If it's not a permissions issue, I don't know what's causing your problem,
but I can assure you that it has nothing to do with FAT32 vs. NTFS. It's
just the data that is transfered from computer to computer, and not its
underlying file structure. Once the files arrive on your NTFS drive, they
are stored as NTFS files just as every other NTFS file is.

Realize that this is just like downloading a file over the internet. When
you do that, you don't even know (nor should you care) what its underlying
file structure started out as. It doesn't matter at all.

When you say 'I've already tried the "permissions issue,' " exactly what
did you do?
 
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