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Thread ID: 32457	2003-04-19 04:40:00	Moving Documents and Settings in XP	Mike (15)	Press F1

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136882	2003-04-19 04:40:00	Firstly is it possible to move the whole Documents and Settings folder and contents to another drive in Windows XP so that everything is referred to that other drive? Or only the My Documents etc.? If so, how? Secondly, I've managed to move My Documents to another drive, and when I open My Computer the My Documents folder at the top of the folder list on the left points to the right place, but if I click on My Computer the link to My Documents under all the drives (just above My Network Places) there still points to the location on C: - how can I make that one point to the same place? Does all that make sense? Mike.	Mike (15)
136883	2003-04-19 05:57:00	Be careful, Mike. That is one of the first things I tried doing with Win XP when I first got it and boy, did it spit the dummy! I ended up having to reformat to fix things. :-( What I have done now is create my own "Documents" folder on the E: drive and have shortcuts point to that. Some things still try to find their way into the original My Documents folder but the way I have my computer set up those instances don't matter. Godfather has warned in the past that a bad hiccup in the system can wipe out the entire contents in My Documents when it goes down. I forget the exact details but he has seen this happen and advised me not to store my data in there but to do what I have done in making a new Documents folder elsewhere.	Susan B (19)
136884	2003-04-19 06:10:00	If you ever have a corrupt user profile occur, or accidently delete a user, all the files in the My Documents for that user are lost. This occurred to a business, where each user was using the default My Documents appropriate to their log-in. A system glitch corrupted a user's log-in and all the files were toast. The disk was sent to a data recovery expert but the cost of retrieval was high. I recommend that where there is not a security issue (user a can see user b documents and vice versa) then create a directory outside the My Documents regime and point everything to that. Makes backupd easier as well. A recent post here has highlighted that a reinstallation of windows, when My Documents was on a second Drive, effectively made the admin rights over the other drive My Documents unobtainable and the contents could not be accessed.	godfather (25)
136885	2003-04-19 06:19:00	The reason I've got My Docs on another drive is because I reinstall XP every now and then, and it just saves the hassle of having to copy all the info etc. on the main drive. I don't have all the security set up so that I can access all the info from other accounts, so there's no problem there. Mike.	Mike (15)
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