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Windows Vista File Management Issues or questions in relation to Vista's file management. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management) |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems
accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. |