Relocation of Public Folders

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Can Public Folder be reloacted like personal folders? When I click on the
locatin tab in properties I see the current location but can not change it.
There is no move button to select and I cann't change the location manully.
 
Which 'Public' folders?
Public Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos, Pictures...all have a functional
"Location" Tab for me.
 
Wayne said:
Can Public Folder be reloacted like personal folders? When I click on the
locatin tab in properties I see the current location but can not change
it.
There is no move button to select and I cann't change the location
manully.
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They have a different set of security permissions to the personal folders.
May have to play around with those.
 
Jon said:
They have a different set of security permissions to the personal folders.
May have to play around with those.
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You may also need need to be careful since there are number of junctions to
them

eg in
c:\ProgramData
+
c:\Users\All Users
+
c:\Users\Public\Documents

etc
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Max said:
Which 'Public' folders?
Public Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos, Pictures...all have a
functional "Location" Tab for me.
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But on mine, Favourites and Recorded TV do not have Location tabs.

This is annoying as Recorded TV is a folder that I really want to move off
my RAID 0 array, as the hidden Recording temp folder is just wearing out the
drives unnecessarily. I want to move this folder on a large cheap drive
that I don't care about if it fails.

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
But on mine, Favourites and Recorded TV do not have Location tabs.

This is annoying as Recorded TV is a folder that I really want to move off
my RAID 0 array, as the hidden Recording temp folder is just wearing out
the drives unnecessarily. I want to move this folder on a large cheap
drive that I don't care about if it fails.
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Recorded TV doesn't seem to be in the same "class" as other Public
Folders -- there's no entry for it under:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\User
Shell Folders"

and it can be moved with no problem.

I think you can move the folder, and then change registry references in the
following locations:

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Service\Recording"

LastRecordPathSet
RecordPath

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Service\Video\Tuners\DVR\IO\Writer"

DVRDirectory

As for the public, 'Favorites', I've never seen anything saved there, nor
can I find anywhere that its contents are displayed.
 
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