Documents folder gone

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
news:...
> 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
news:...
> 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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"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
news:...
> 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...

"SG" <> wrote in message
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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 news:...
> 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
> news:...
>> 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
> news:...
>> 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
>>
>

Didn't know I could create the Documents folder. I thought it was the
equivalent of 'My Documents' in XP, which I always thought was a special
Windows directory that couldn't be renamed or deleted, and had a special
method of being moved (not just drag and dropped, for instance). As for
trying again - how can I do that when the original folder is gone? If I can
just create it, why don't I just create 'Documents' on the root of the D
drive and move everything into it (to the extent I'm able to remember what
goes in there)?

Thanks again,

Rip


"Don" <> wrote in message
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> ">" <<RiPpErT> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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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> Don
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