System Documents Folder

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David A Gourlay

I somehow managed to merge the system documents and favourites folders while
trying to change the location of the documents folder.

The system documents folder has disappeared. I was able to seperate my files
from the favourites but I had to create a normal folder for my files.

Is there anyway to re-create the system documents folder? Endless searches
have not produced a solution to this, so any help is welcome.

David
 
Hi,

If you type "Documents" into the start/search line, it should find wherever
the folder was moved to. Right click the entry in the start menu, choose
properties. On the Location tab, click on "restore default".

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Hi Rick,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I tried that and tried again but no luck.

What happened was that I wanted to move my favourites folder to my Documents
folder on a second partition (so that in the event of anything going wrong
with Windows I can re-install and not lose my Favourites and Documents).

I did this by going to the Favourites, right clicking, properties, location
and I selected the Documents Folder (on D). This resulted in all my
favourites being moved to my Documents folder (merging with my documents) and
renaming "documents" to "Favourites"! Internet Explorer gave all my documents
AND favourites when I opened the favourites panel but wouldn't allow me to
add new favourites.

So I right clicked this new combined folder (called favourites) and moved it
back to C - Users - (User name) as above.

There was then no documents folder, so I had to create a new standard folder
which I called documents and had to unentangle my documents from my
favourites and put the documents in this new folder.

The problem is it's not the "system" documents folder, just a normal folder
called documents. So when ever I try to open or save any file, the default
location is my favourites folder!

It's not massively bad, but it is a pest, and I was just wondering if there
was a way to restore the system documents folder (short of reinstalling
Windows) to make life easier!

Thanks again

David
 
Talk about doing things the hard way. :-)

Original task --- Internet Explorer -> File menu-> Import and Export->Export
Favorites-- choose save location and file name. All favourites saved in one
convenient file for later recovery or importation into other browsers.

Your quickest way out of this might be to do a System Restore to the first
point before you started moving system folders around.

From your description it sounds like the currently labeled Favorites system
folder is actually the Documents system folder. If you didn't create a new
Documents folder in Users/<your username>/Documents, put it there. If you
then go to the current Favorites folder and try the
right-click -Properties-Location- Restore Defaults, hopefully it will do
just that and restore the Documents system folder to the proper location
again.
 
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