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    Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    Hi everyone,

    Basically, I just put a second hard drive in my laptop and put the My Documents folder and all of it's content onto the new drive.

    Somehow (not sure what I've managed to do) I now have duplicate files in the folder that opens when I click my name in the start menu.




    Can anyone help me get rid of the duplicates?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    Did you right click the documents folder on the start menu, then go to properties, then location and select move?
    Not 100% sure that works on 7 as am on my laptop right now, but that is the method used in Vista and I don't think they changed it, just dragging it somewhere else will result in duplicates being made.
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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    it annoyingly does that, just delete the empty one.

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by Golden Dragoon View Post
    Did you right click the documents folder on the start menu, then go to properties, then location and select move?
    Not 100% sure that works on 7 as am on my laptop right now, but that is the method used in Vista and I don't think they changed it, just dragging it somewhere else will result in duplicates being made.
    That's exactly what I did! Used the move button. What I didn't realise what that it does move the whole folder i.e. If you move the contacts folder, it moves the contents of contacts to the target rather than the folder itself. So maybe that's why I have these duplicates?

    it annoyingly does that, just delete the empty one.
    I can't, it shows them both as the actual My Documents / Media drive! So if I deleted them, I'd lose a lot of stuff...

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    the library is a link not an actual folder.

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by GoNz0 View Post
    the library is a link not an actual folder.
    Well, when I try to delete them, it asks whether I'd like to delete all 200GB as it's too big for the trash can.

    On another note, if I delete a less important duplicate, it reappears a few seconds later.
    Last edited by timtim86; 26-02-2011 at 12:37 PM.

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    now thats strange, what if you right click and properties on the my docs link on the start menu, what shows in the library locations ?

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    Sod it, I just restored back to before SP1 was installed, which was a day before all of this went mental.

    Thanks for trying to help Gonzo.

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    Re: Windows 7 User Folder, Help!

    not sure if this helps

    http://www.maximumpc.com/article/how...ia_storage_ssd

    worked with Win 7 64 bit, though not installed SP1 yet - waiting to see if people have problems with it - which it sounds like they are

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