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Lost some of My Documents

16 years ago

I backed up some files and folders from My Documents to my external hard drive. Now when I go to My Documents I can't find any file or folder starting with the letter "E" or beyond. When I save something to My Documents there seems to be no problem, I get no error message, but when I go to look for the file it isn't there. I understand I can use my backup, but I would like to find out what happened and what to do about it incase it does it again. BTW I have My Documents on the D drive, if it makes a difference.

After searching everywhere(and no, search was of no use)I found a folder named Recent and is filled with shortcuts to files and folders. Some of these look like the ones from My Documents, but I doubt this has any real connection.

Has anyone ever had a similar experience? Any ideas on a solution? All help is greatly appreciated.

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mikie_gw
16 years ago
Might try the typical repair of the my documents folder.
Which for you on XP? would be from the run line;
rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit

This is assuming you correctly moved the My Documents folder to begin with. That's one of Windows special folders.
helpless_n_ny
Original Author
16 years ago
Right now the My Documents folder is a short cut to the target folder location D:\. At least that is what the My Documents Properties says(I'm not that up on this stuff). Yes, I have XP PRO. I tried the repair, but nothing happened. Is there a way to just clear disk D, put My Documents folder back to drive C temporarily while I clear disk D, then put My Documents(backup) back to D again? I would like to keep the folder there so not to fill up and slow the C drive. I try to keep the C drive as empty as possible and with my wife and two girls always adding RPG's it's hard to do. Thanks again for the help.
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mikie_gw
16 years ago
RPG's, Rocket Powered Grenades. Wow, it must be pretty ruough when both the wife and the kids play with those.

I think the TweakUi from microsoft has a move my documents feature.

Here is a link that might be useful: TweakUi
helpless_n_ny
Original Author
16 years ago
I found one PDF shortcut which states "location: My Documents". The target is "D" but the actual location is C:\Documents and Settings\Recent.
I just saved a notepad titled "Ben", saved as a text file and one titled "Zen". The "Ben" file located and showed in My Documents and created a shortcut in the Recent folder. The "Zen" file is located in C:\Documents and Settings\Recent and has a shortcut there. The target is D:\zen.txt.
Somehow when I save to My Documents, I'm involving the Recent folder. Never heard of this folder before but it seems to have intertwined with My Documents and its save feature.

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