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1332990 2013-03-17 03:55:00 There is no docs and settings folder in Win7. Everything is under the users folder. Thats why you cant find it, it doesnt exist in Win7

Coldot wrote,_
"My two PCs with Win7 - each has c:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles. That's as seen in Windows Explorer."

And I wrote,_
"Documents and Settings is not visible on C. Ava find says it is there and has 0 KB."
and,_
"Documents and Settings is not (visible); Ava Find says it is there, but having 0.00 contents may be the reason it is not displayed.

You haven't been paying attention Speedy.
it may be invisible on your computer too. 		Vince (406)
1332991 2013-03-17 04:15:00 Its there but you CANT open it. Its only there for compatibility It was replaced by C:/user/username/appdata / the local and roaming folders in Windows 7. And the programdata folder

As it says here (www.tomshardware.com) here (4sysops.com)

Look in Google next time. 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
1332992 2013-03-17 05:37:00 It's an NTFS "junction point" (similar to a symlink on linux filesystems) pointing to c:\users\

But yes, the obfuscation and hiding users data from them is a bit stupid really.
Just makes simple things difficult for no good reason.

Another effort from the good folk at the OCOSA.
(Organisation for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs). :) 		fred_fish (15241)
1332993 2013-03-17 19:30:00 Whether I go through \Documents and Settings to the user data or through \Users - it all seems to be identical and I can read Thunderbird email storage files just as easily either way. Microsoft seems to enjoy creating multiple paths and then hiding some of them. On checking history I see that I had to take ownership of \Documents and Settings in order to reach that state. While I accept that MS protects me by restricting access to Administrator data, I want to be allowed to look at everything else on my computer. coldot (6847)
1332994 2013-03-18 00:20:00 Its there but you CANT open it. Its only there for compatibility It was replaced by C:/user/username/appdata / the local and roaming folders in Windows 7. And the programdata folder

As it says here (www.tomshardware.com) here (4sysops.com)
Look in Google next time.

What compatibility does it provide? ie. what use is it?
Regards your link, you really have to study a site like that to decide if it is informed, spurious or malicious.
It doesn't really clarify things in my opinion. 		Vince (406)
1332995 2013-03-18 00:34:00 It's an NTFS "junction point" (similar to a symlink on linux filesystems) pointing to c:\users\

But yes, the obfuscation and hiding users data from them is a bit stupid really.
Just makes simple things difficult for no good reason.

Another effort from the good folk at the OCOSA.
(Organization for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs). :)

I have been getting angry reactions from people throughout my long life just because I was doing things the easy way.
Said people could never explain why they were angry! 		Vince (406)
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