Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the Documents
folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and selected the
D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message appeared asking if
I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just some of them I guess);
I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents folders for the Shiela
user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected the folder 'Documents' to
be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it removed all the files from
Documents and scattered them across the root of the D drive. Now I don't
know what was there before the move and what was moved there. Ran a full
search of all drives for 'Documents' and it returned nothing, so I guess the
Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy just to get back to where I
started with the docs folder and its contents intact on the C drive. Is that
possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper

If you just did it, opening an explorer window and choose Undo on the Edit
menu (Alt + E) might help.

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"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root of
the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what was
moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy
just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its contents
intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper

Ripper

Explain exactly how you went about moving that Folder which should not have been
moved

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"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital scrapbooking
grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the Documents folder, selected
the Location tab, clicked the move button and selected the D (Data) drive which
had more space. Confirmation message appeared asking if I wanted to move all of
the files (as opposed to just some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I
would see two Documents folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the
files. I expected the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D
drive.Well, it removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the
root of the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what was
moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it returned
nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy just to get back
to where I started with the docs folder and its contents intact on the C drive. Is
that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper

"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root of
the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what was
moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy
just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its contents
intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper



Try System Restore,

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" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root of
the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what was
moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy
just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its contents
intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.


I believe all you did wrong was not creating the actual documents folder
prior to performing the move operation and pointing it to that folder.
You pointed it to drive D obviously thinking it would create the folder,
then all it did was move all your documents to drive D as you see.

I would try it again, this time create a folder on your D drive named
documents, then click on the start orb, place the cursor over the documents
on the program menu, right click and click on properties. Click on the
location tab, then click on Move. This time point to the newly created
documents folder on your d drive, and then it should go ahead and move those
same documents you just moved to the documents folder under D.


Hope this helps,

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"Peter Foldes" wrote in message
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which should not have been moved

Sorry Peter that's rubbish. I move the Documents folder every time to a
different partition. I've never had any problems with it at all.

The problem the OP has is that he didn't create a new Documents folder first
on the other drive.....

" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root of
the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what was
moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be happy
just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its contents
intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper


Do you still have an icon for Documents in your user folder? Right-click on
it, choose Properties, go to the Location tab and click on "Restore
Default". That should put the Documents folder with the contents back to
where it was.
Then, on the D drive, create a new folder called Documents.
THEN do the move, choosing the new Documents folder as the location.

HTH

PS - it's always a good idea to ensure that you have a backup BEFORE
attempting any sort of mass data moving like this...

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"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message

Try System Restore,


System Restore only restores SYSTEM and program files - not data.

Edit/Undo is disabled.

R

. wrote in message ...
If you just did it, opening an explorer window and choose Undo on the Edit
menu (Alt + E) might help.

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"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message
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Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root
of the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what
was moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be
happy just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its
contents intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper

Don't know how more exact I can get. I'm sure I've done this in XP several
times and it simply moves My Documents (the folder) to a new drive.

R

"Peter Foldes" wrote in message
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Ripper

Explain exactly how you went about moving that Folder which should not
have been moved

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"RipperT @nOsPaM.nEt" RiPpErT wrote in message
...
Vista Home Premium SP1. HP Laptop with one account. Wife's digital
scrapbooking grew to large for the C drive, so I right clicked the
Documents folder, selected the Location tab, clicked the move button and
selected the D (Data) drive which had more space. Confirmation message
appeared asking if I wanted to move all of the files (as opposed to just
some of them I guess); I was warned if I didn't I would see two Documents
folders for the Shiela user. Clicked 'Yes' move all the files. I expected
the folder 'Documents' to be put on the root of the D drive.Well, it
removed all the files from Documents and scattered them across the root
of the D drive. Now I don't know what was there before the move and what
was moved there. Ran a full search of all drives for 'Documents' and it
returned nothing, so I guess the Documents folder evaporated. I'd be
happy just to get back to where I started with the docs folder and its
contents intact on the C drive. Is that possible?

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Ripper