Be careful what you delete.
The "real" My Pictures" and "My Documents" folders are under Documents and Settings - one for each user (I only have one because there are no other users on my PC). The "My Documents" at the "top of the tree" is a pointer to the "real" folder in the My Documents folder. Don't delete it. It's sort of like a shortcut, but not really - its a pointer. If you delete it, it might delete your "real" My Documents folder (I haven't tried it, but wouldn't suggest you do so). My Documents and/or My Pictures folders can be moved (to a different drive or partition, for instance), but they MUST be moved IN A PARTICULAR WAY, in order to keep the pointers, such as the "My Documents" at the "top of the tree" (and in the START Menu, for instance) in sync with the location of the actual folder(s). If you restore your computer registry to a point before it was moved, then it reappears (empty of files) in the original position and must be moved again in a particular way to where you want it and the folders and files it contained moved back into it. If you go about deleting "extra" My Documents" or My Pictures "folders," you could mess up all the pointers.
AnnaSummers
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] I figured out where those pics are going but
Well, more has transpired since I sent that email a couple of days ago. Now
I see I have 4 My Pictures folders, and I believe 3 of them are to be
expected in XP. (One under the My Documents at the top of the tree, that is
usually 'hidden' from view, one that is under Documents and Setting in My
Documents, and one under User's Documents way down in the bottom of the
'tree'. One of the things I don't like about XP....all the mirroring with
duplicate folders, but maybe that's part of what makes it more stable?)
Anyway, I somehow got a 4th My Pictures folder, (equal with User in the
tree), and when I save more pictures, they're only going into that folder,
and not mirroring over to the others. (I have the feeling the 4th one must
have come from my old Win98 system data, when the computer store loaded the
new one. One of the drawbacks of not doing it yourself. You're not sure
what they did, or if it's the way you'd think it would be. My own fault, I
should have examined everything more closely before I did a thing.)
What I'm planning, is burn it onto a CD, as well as one of the other 3
duplicate My Pictures folders. Then I will try to save all the contents of
that old My Pictures folder into the new one. I believe it will tell me
there are duplicate files/pics, and I can just tell it to replace them.
That way, I should have everything that's extra in the old file included in
the new one and anything that's not in the old one will stay in the new one.
Someone tell me, if you see an error in my thinking here.
Carol Hanson
> I'm the one with the problem of not being able to find pics I'd saved in a
> particular folder. The problem is that I have two folders by the name of
> My
> Pictures. (I know not how, as I never created two.) One of them is under
> C: and the other one is under My Documents. What was happening is when I
> saved them, they went into the one under the C:, and when I tried to
> upload
> them later, the default was taking me to the My Pictures in My Docs, so of
> course they were not there.
>
> What I'm planning, is to move the new pics from My Pictures under C: to
> the
> My
> Pictures under My Docs, and then delete the folder under C:. Is there any
> chance both My Pictures folders could be deleted, if I delete one of them?
> Carol Hanson
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