I'm not a Windoze Exspurt or nuthin, but based on my exposure to XP and
7 I think that what you're seeing is a change MSoft made from the
concept of "My Documents" to "Libraries."
My Documents was essentially a reference to a folder, usually in your
User Name sub folder (one per user account) and was changeable so that
My Documents could point to any drive anywhere you had access.
In Win 7 (and likely in Vista), Libraries are conceptual collections of
one, or many, folders which can be anywhere on any drive you have access
to. All of the different folder locations are kind of "grouped" together
and treated as a collection of documents you want to have access to by
going to My Documents (or now referred to as "Libraries - Documents".)
When working with Libraries, you simply add any folder, from anywhere,
to the collection, and you can also remove any folder that is already
referred to in the collection...such as the default My Documents in your
User account subfolder in the "Users" root folder, which is
automatically created on the same drive as your Windows installation.
Hope this helps...I may be wrong on some of the vernacular, so your
mileage may vary.
Mike Copeland
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [NF] Moving My Doc's Folder...
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 8/10/2013 11:28 AM
Hey there folks - hope everyone is having a good weekend.
I haven't posted in here much over the past month or so - but, that's
because I am no longer at my last day job doing VFP - now I'm working
strictly as a "Freelance Prototyper" (although - I may at some point
in the near future return back to one or more small VFP apps I
developed in the past and try to market/sell them to the public).
Anyway...
I have this new PC - its a Boxx - and it came to me almost barebones -
so that I could put my own HD's in there (with primary being SSD
drive), Win7 I bought recently, and a hi-end video card I've owned for
a while - and took out of my old machine.
Problem is - I want to keep to a minimum what goes onto the primary HD
- the SSD - and mostly stick w/just the OS - and couple primary apps -
like my main 3D CG app & Photoshop.
So - I know that in the past I have moved the My Documents folder -
which I had done on some older PC's - which had either XP or Vista.
Yet, on this Win7 - I can't really seem to figure how to do this. It
just doesn't seem obvious.
Here is where I was looking. In Windows Explorer - I did a Right-click
on Documents under Libraries - then selected Properties. Now, under
properties I DO see an "Include a Folder..." button. And, I'm assuming
I can select a folder on another drive (which is kinda what I want to
do). But, I was hoping to somehow move the whole documents folder and
structure to another drive - and then make that the active My
Documents folder.
Do I need to essentially COPY the whole Doc's folder on C: onto
another drive like F: with all the sub-folders, and THEN make it the
active Doc's folder using "Include a Folder..." option button? Or -
Should I literally MOVE the whole folder structure from C: to F: - and
THEN make it the active Doc's folder. I just don't want to try and do
it the wrong way - then have some mess that I have to attempt to
cleanup since it wasn't done the right way...
Thanks in advance!
Kurt
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