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Documents folder on Desktop
I boot up my laptop this morning only to find my Documents folder
mysteriously sitting on my desktop. Not a shortcut to Documents - the actual folder. I try moving the contents out of the desktop Documents into the actual Documents folder, then attempt to delete the desktop version, only to find doing this is resulting in the deletion of the contents of the actual Documents folder as well. How can I get the Documents folder off of my desktop? |
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Documents folder on Desktop
Where is and what is the "actual" documents folder? I'd just drag the
desktop one to where the actual one is and choose replace when it asks how to move it. I'm no expert though. If it doesn't work then try dragging with a right click and select move. John Mike wrote: I boot up my laptop this morning only to find my Documents folder mysteriously sitting on my desktop. Not a shortcut to Documents - the actual folder. I try moving the contents out of the desktop Documents into the actual Documents folder, then attempt to delete the desktop version, only to find doing this is resulting in the deletion of the contents of the actual Documents folder as well. How can I get the Documents folder off of my desktop? |
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Documents folder on Desktop
Where is and what is the "actual" documents folder?
The folder in the user named folder, in my case C:/Mike/Documents. I'd just drag the desktop one to where the actual one is and choose replace when it asks how to move it. I'm no expert though. If it doesn't work then try dragging with a right click and select move. Instead of asking if I want to replace, I end up with 2 identical Documents folders. If I try to delete one, the other gets deleted as well. |
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Documents folder on Desktop
Hi, Mike.
Shouldn't that be C:\Users\Mike\Documents? It appears that you somehow dragged your Documents folder to the Desktop at some point. Does "Documents" appear on the right-hand side of your Start menu? Right-click it and then Properties | Location | Restore Default. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64) "Mike" wrote in message news Where is and what is the "actual" documents folder? The folder in the user named folder, in my case C:/Mike/Documents. I'd just drag the desktop one to where the actual one is and choose replace when it asks how to move it. I'm no expert though. If it doesn't work then try dragging with a right click and select move. Instead of asking if I want to replace, I end up with 2 identical Documents folders. If I try to delete one, the other gets deleted as well. |
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Documents folder on Desktop
That's really weird. If you do a right click drag and check move it
should delete it from desktop and move it to wherever you want. The only time I've seen this thing where you delete one file and it deletes it's copy in another folder is in the search things... that's really weird too. Another vista werid thing. john Mike wrote: Where is and what is the "actual" documents folder? The folder in the user named folder, in my case C:/Mike/Documents. I'd just drag the desktop one to where the actual one is and choose replace when it asks how to move it. I'm no expert though. If it doesn't work then try dragging with a right click and select move. Instead of asking if I want to replace, I end up with 2 identical Documents folders. If I try to delete one, the other gets deleted as well. |
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Documents folder on Desktop
Right click your Desktop, Personalize, go to Change Desktop icons on the left pane. Here you can choose your items for the Desktop.
-- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Mike" wrote in message ... I boot up my laptop this morning only to find my Documents folder mysteriously sitting on my desktop. Not a shortcut to Documents - the actual folder. I try moving the contents out of the desktop Documents into the actual Documents folder, then attempt to delete the desktop version, only to find doing this is resulting in the deletion of the contents of the actual Documents folder as well. How can I get the Documents folder off of my desktop? |