Redirecting My Documents Issue

Hello,

Since moving some of my users to Vista, I've noticed a strange thing
happening in regard to changing the path of MY DOCUMENTS and the users
home/personal drives.

For example, if I have a user named Mike Jones and he has a home drive that
is mapped to H: and the path is \\server\users\JonesM, when I change the
path
of Documents to H:, the JonesM folder gets renamed to DOCUMENTS. Which can
get confusing when you have more than one user who has been moved to Vista
and you see a list of folders named DOCUMENTS over and over again.

If I browse to the \\server\users folder via an XP computer, I see the
folder names correctly (JonesM), but if I browse to the folder using a Vista
computer, all I see are DOCUMENTS folders.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Hi, Nick.

> Can anyone shed some light on this?

Yep. It's Vista 101.

Vista has mostly retired WinXP's "My" folders. What used to be "My
Computer" is now just "Computer", as you might have noticed. And My
Documents is now just Documents - and it's Users\RC\Documents, right
alongside Users\Public\Documents and other User folders for other users.

The old folder names are preserved in Vista, but only as Junction Points so
that applications that have not been updated for Vista can still find their
files. For example, C:\Default User is now a Junction pointing to
C:\Users\Default.

Now, since I'm just one guy with one computer and no network, I'll step back
and let someone else explain the hard parts. ;<}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)


"Nick Jax" <> wrote in message
news:OwBcXt$#...
> Hello,
>
> Since moving some of my users to Vista, I've noticed a strange thing
> happening in regard to changing the path of MY DOCUMENTS and the users
> home/personal drives.
>
> For example, if I have a user named Mike Jones and he has a home drive
> that
> is mapped to H: and the path is \\server\users\JonesM, when I change the
> path
> of Documents to H:, the JonesM folder gets renamed to DOCUMENTS. Which
> can
> get confusing when you have more than one user who has been moved to Vista
> and you see a list of folders named DOCUMENTS over and over again.
>
> If I browse to the \\server\users folder via an XP computer, I see the
> folder names correctly (JonesM), but if I browse to the folder using a
> Vista
> computer, all I see are DOCUMENTS folders.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?

"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
news:Oe2dG1$%...
> Hi, Nick.
>
>> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Yep. It's Vista 101.
>
> Vista has mostly retired WinXP's "My" folders. What used to be "My
> Computer" is now just "Computer", as you might have noticed. And My
> Documents is now just Documents - and it's Users\RC\Documents, right
> alongside Users\Public\Documents and other User folders for other users.
>
> The old folder names are preserved in Vista, but only as Junction Points
> so that applications that have not been updated for Vista can still find
> their files. For example, C:\Default User is now a Junction pointing to
> C:\Users\Default.
>
> Now, since I'm just one guy with one computer and no network, I'll step
> back and let someone else explain the hard parts. ;<}

No, you are misunderstanding the issue I think.

ss.

"Nick Jax" <> wrote in message
news:OwBcXt$%...
> Hello,
>
> Since moving some of my users to Vista, I've noticed a strange thing
> happening in regard to changing the path of MY DOCUMENTS and the users
> home/personal drives.
>
> For example, if I have a user named Mike Jones and he has a home drive
> that
> is mapped to H: and the path is \\server\users\JonesM, when I change the
> path
> of Documents to H:, the JonesM folder gets renamed to DOCUMENTS. Which
> can
> get confusing when you have more than one user who has been moved to Vista
> and you see a list of folders named DOCUMENTS over and over again.
>
> If I browse to the \\server\users folder via an XP computer, I see the
> folder names correctly (JonesM), but if I browse to the folder using a
> Vista
> computer, all I see are DOCUMENTS folders.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?


Yes, it's the contained desktop.ini files, giving a 'friendly' name
(confusing more like). You can delete them, or edit them to stop this.

See this conversation where I discuss it:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mic...3bdeba9fd65b7c

ss.