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My Documents Folder Location
Hi,
I tried to move My Documents folder (per MS Article ID 310147) from C drive (where OS is) to N:\John\My Documents. Bothof these drives are partitions on the same hard drive. I then tried to restore My Documents folder back to my C drive (as described in above article). Now when I save a Word document with Save As, it still wants to save to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on "Tools", "Options", "File Locations" in a Word document, it still lists documents to be sent to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on Modify and type in folder name as: C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents, I get the following message: "Microsoft Word The folder C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the file name contains a / or\. OK" Is there any way to change the Save As location from N:\John\MyDocuments to C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents so that my Word documents will go back to my C drive. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Dell 4700, WinXP SP2 Pro, 2.8 G Pentium 4, 160 G HD, 80 G Ext USB 2 HD, 512 MB RAM, IE & OE 6, NSW 2005 Premium, ZA 6.0.667.000, Ad-Aware, Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.3, Spyware Blaster, MS AntiSpyware |
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If what's in your post is exactly what you typed, the problem may be that the
name of the folder under the root of C: is "Documents and Settings" -- with the "and" spelled out, not as an ampersand. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:46:01 -0800, jslow wrote: Hi, I tried to move My Documents folder (per MS Article ID 310147) from C drive (where OS is) to N:\John\My Documents. Bothof these drives are partitions on the same hard drive. I then tried to restore My Documents folder back to my C drive (as described in above article). Now when I save a Word document with Save As, it still wants to save to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on "Tools", "Options", "File Locations" in a Word document, it still lists documents to be sent to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on Modify and type in folder name as: C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents, I get the following message: "Microsoft Word The folder C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the file name contains a / or\. OK" Is there any way to change the Save As location from N:\John\MyDocuments to C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents so that my Word documents will go back to my C drive. Thanks for any suggestions. |
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I have set up systems with My Documents on a different drive, but only by
configuring it at the Windows install stage. Trying to do it later, whatever the article says, is liable to lead to issues. Special folder details are scattered throughout the registry, and the folders themselves are used in various different ways by different applications. If it isn't the simple issue Jay suggests, make sure, first of all, that you reboot the machine; then check that you can access the folder correctly with Explorer before trying again in Word. If it still claims to be inaccessible, see if it helps to start Word in safe mode (hold Ctrl while starting Word). If not, you may have a long slow job trying to isolate the problem and I'm not sure I'm qualified to help, but do come back if you get stuck. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "jslow" wrote in message ... Hi, I tried to move My Documents folder (per MS Article ID 310147) from C drive (where OS is) to N:\John\My Documents. Bothof these drives are partitions on the same hard drive. I then tried to restore My Documents folder back to my C drive (as described in above article). Now when I save a Word document with Save As, it still wants to save to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on "Tools", "Options", "File Locations" in a Word document, it still lists documents to be sent to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on Modify and type in folder name as: C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents, I get the following message: "Microsoft Word The folder C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the file name contains a / or\. OK" Is there any way to change the Save As location from N:\John\MyDocuments to C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents so that my Word documents will go back to my C drive. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Dell 4700, WinXP SP2 Pro, 2.8 G Pentium 4, 160 G HD, 80 G Ext USB 2 HD, 512 MB RAM, IE & OE 6, NSW 2005 Premium, ZA 6.0.667.000, Ad-Aware, Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.3, Spyware Blaster, MS AntiSpyware |
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Hi Jay & Tony,
Thanks for your replies. Jay, the suggestion you made worked. I typed Documents and Settings instead of Documents & Settings and it changed location for Word documents to C:\Documents and Settings\John\My Documents as I wanted it to change. Thanks again for the help. jslow -- Dell 4700, WinXP SP2 Pro, 2.8 G Pentium 4, 160 G HD, 80 G Ext USB 2 HD, 512 MB RAM, IE & OE 6, NSW 2005 Premium, ZA 6.0.667.000, Ad-Aware, Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.3, Spyware Blaster, MS AntiSpyware "Jay Freedman" wrote: If what's in your post is exactly what you typed, the problem may be that the name of the folder under the root of C: is "Documents and Settings" -- with the "and" spelled out, not as an ampersand. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:46:01 -0800, jslow wrote: Hi, I tried to move My Documents folder (per MS Article ID 310147) from C drive (where OS is) to N:\John\My Documents. Bothof these drives are partitions on the same hard drive. I then tried to restore My Documents folder back to my C drive (as described in above article). Now when I save a Word document with Save As, it still wants to save to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on "Tools", "Options", "File Locations" in a Word document, it still lists documents to be sent to N:\John\My Documents. If I click on Modify and type in folder name as: C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents, I get the following message: "Microsoft Word The folder C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the file name contains a / or\. OK" Is there any way to change the Save As location from N:\John\MyDocuments to C:\Documents & Settings\John\My Documents so that my Word documents will go back to my C drive. Thanks for any suggestions. |
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