Windows Vista 11 personal folders messed up.

[tanner]

Hi,

I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
first try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
folders under Administrator...

The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
is as follows.

Bert
Desktop
Contacts
Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
Desktop
Documents
...the rest are fine, then

Under the C:\drive I have

Local Disk C
Users
Administrator
Favorites(yellow)
Contacts
Contacts(yellow)
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
...the rest are fine.

Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Re: 11 personal folders messed up.

Hi,

Yep, looks like a mess. The user folders should fall in one level below the
user account folder, like:

Bert
Desktop
Contacts
Desktop (this would be a duplicate, which is likely what happened)
Documents

Local Disk C
Users
Administrator
Favorites(yellow)
Contacts
Desktop
Documents
Downloads

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"tanner" <tanner778@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:95861a22-c683-4815-9d28-ee1a83becf4f@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
> first try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
> folders under Administrator...
>
> The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
> is as follows.
>
> Bert
> Desktop
> Contacts
> Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
> Desktop
> Documents
> ...the rest are fine, then
>
> Under the C:\drive I have
>
> Local Disk C
> Users
> Administrator
> Favorites(yellow)
> Contacts
> Contacts(yellow)
> Desktop
> Documents
> Downloads
> ...the rest are fine.
>
> Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
> sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

Re: 11 personal folders messed up.

I would start in the Properties dialog of each personal folder, click on the
'Location' tab and use the 'Restore Default' option. If you don't see a
'Location' tab, Windows doesn't think the folder is one of your personal
folders.

If you're having trouble locating a folder, use the "shell:" command from
the Start Search box or the Run dialog:

shellersonal

will open your Documents folder. The other names to use with this command
are:

Contacts
Desktop
Downloads
Favorites
Links
My Music
My Pictures
My Video
SavedGames
Searches

Once you find out which Contacts folder is the 'right' one, we can worry
about the duplicate.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"tanner" <tanner778@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:95861a22-c683-4815-9d28-ee1a83becf4f@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
> f irst try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
> folders under Administrator...
>
> The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
> is as follows.
>
> Bert
> Desktop
> Contacts
> Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
> Desktop
> Documents
> ...the rest are fine, then
>
> Under the C:\drive I have
>
> Local Disk C
> Users
> Administrator
> Favorites(yellow)
> Contacts
> Contacts(yellow)
> Desktop
> Documents
> Downloads
> ...the rest are fine.
>
> Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
> sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[brink]

Re: 11 personal folders messed up.


tanner;581496 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
> first try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
> folders under Administrator...
>
> The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
> is as follows.
>
> Bert
> Desktop
> Contacts
> Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
> Desktop
> Documents
> ...the rest are fine, then
>
> Under the C:\drive I have
>
> Local Disk C
> Users
> Administrator
> Favorites(yellow)
> Contacts
> Contacts(yellow)
> Desktop
> Documents
> Downloads
> ...the rest are fine.
>
> Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
> sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi Tanner,

In addition to the other posts, you can use this as a guide to try and
get them back to their default locations.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/107990-personal-user-shell-folders-move-location.html

If all else fails, create yourself a new Administrator account and
delete the old one after transfering what you do not want to lose to the
new one.

Shawn


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[tanner]

Re: 11 personal folders messed up.

On Jan 22, 3:49 pm, brink <brink.33l...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
> tanner;581496 Wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I tried moving my folders to a second data drive but messed up on the
> > first try. I've doubled up on the contacts folder and messed up my
> > folders under Administrator...
>
> > The yellow in parantheses denotes a regular folder. My file structure
> > is as follows.
>
> > Bert
> > Desktop
> > Contacts
> > Contacts (Yellow) I can't seem to be able to delete this.
> > Desktop
> > Documents
> > ...the rest are fine, then
>
> > Under the C:\drive I have
>
> > Local Disk C
> > Users
> > Administrator
> > Favorites(yellow)
> > Contacts
> > Contacts(yellow)
> > Desktop
> > Documents
> > Downloads
> > ...the rest are fine.
>
> > Does anyone know of a guide to fix all this? How is the stucture
> > sopposed to be layed out? Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Hi Tanner,
>
> In addition to the other posts, you can use this as a guide to try and
> get them back to their default locations.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/107990-personal-user-shell-folders-...
>
> If all else fails, create yourself a new Administrator account and
> delete the old one after transfering what you do not want to lose to the
> new one.
>
> Shawn
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> '*Vista Forums*'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thank you all for the advise. I decided to create a new user and
delete the old one. The problem now is that all the hidden files under
the old one "/user/appdata/..." that contain temp files and program
files are still there. I can't seem to be able to delete them. I think
it's a permissions thing. How would I deal with that? On a side
question, My new user is Tanner_2. After I delete the old user can I
rename my existing user Tanner?

Thanks again.

 

[Brink]

Re: 11 personal folders messed up.


tanner;590831 Wrote:
> On Jan 22, 3:49*pm, brink <brink.33l...@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:> > >
> > > tanner;581496 Wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Tanner,
> > >
> > > In addition to the other posts, you can use this as a guide to try
> > and
> > > get them back to their default locations.
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/107990-personal-user-shell-folders-...
> > >
> > > If all else fails, create yourself a new Administrator account and
> > > delete the old one after transfering what you do not want to lose to
> > the
> > > new one.
> > >
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > > --
> > > brink
> > >
> > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> > > '*Vista Forums*'
> > > (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> > > *Please post feedback to help others.*- Hide quoted text -
> > >
> > > - Show quoted text - > >
>
> Thank you all for the advise. I decided to create a new user and
> delete the old one. The problem now is that all the hidden files
> under
> the old one "/user/appdata/..." that contain temp files and program
> files are still there. I can't seem to be able to delete them. I
> think
> it's a permissions thing. How would I deal with that? On a side
> question, My new user is Tanner_2. After I delete the old user can I
> rename my existing user Tanner?
>
> Thanks again.

Tanner,

Restart the computer, then see if you can delete the old
"C:\Users\Tanner" folders. If not, then take ownership of them and try
deleting them again.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html


You could rename your new account from "Tanner_2" to whatever you want,
but it will stay as that here "C:\Users\Tanner_2". The only way to
change that folder location name is to create a new user account and
delete the old one again, or reinstall Vista.

Shawn


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