Reading files from CD

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I copied the My Documents folder from my desktop to a CD-RW so I can copy them to my laptop. When I try to copy or read the My Documents from the CD it reverts to the My Documents info on my laptop "C" hard drive. How can I read this info from the CD that was copied from my desktop?
 
How was the burn done? Did you burn an ISO CD strictly as data or did you
use UDF format (InCD for instance) to drag and drop? If the latter, the
UDF software must be on the laptop as well to read the disk.

wellsprop said:
I copied the My Documents folder from my desktop to a CD-RW so I can copy
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them to my laptop. When I try to copy or read the My Documents from the CD
it reverts to the My Documents info on my laptop "C" hard drive. How can I
read this info from the CD that was copied from my desktop?
 
It sounds like you copied a shortcut, not the actual
files . . .
-----Original Message-----
I copied the My Documents folder from my desktop to a CD-
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RW so I can copy them to my laptop. When I try to copy or
read the My Documents from the CD it reverts to the My
Documents info on my laptop "C" hard drive. How can I
read this info from the CD that was copied from my desktop?
 
wellsprop said:
I copied the My Documents folder from my desktop
to a CD-RW so I can copy them to my laptop. When
I try to copy or read the My Documents from the CD
it reverts to the My Documents info on my laptop "C"
hard drive. How can I read this info from the CD that
was copied from my desktop?
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So, why don't you just pop the CD-RW in your laptop, assuming your
laptop can read a CD-RW, and then you can see it...

I couldn't tell you why it is accessing your desktop folder, unless
you did not copy correctly and only made a shortcut, and didn't
transfer the files onto the CD.

D.
 
The My Documents icon on the Desktop is just a shortcut. So you copied the
shortcut to the CD that is why when you click on the icon on your CD it
opened the My Documents folder on the computer you have the CD in. To copy
the contents of the My Document directory you need to open an Explorer
Windows and navigate to the <log on username> documents directory. For
example I would right click the Start button and select Explore. In the left
pane I would navigate to C:\Documents and Setting\Harry\My Documents. Copy
that directory to the CD-R/W and the contents will be burned to disk.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


wellsprop said:
I copied the My Documents folder from my desktop to a CD-RW so I can copy
Click to expand...
them to my laptop. When I try to copy or read the My Documents from the CD
it reverts to the My Documents info on my laptop "C" hard drive. How can I
read this info from the CD that was copied from my desktop?
 
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