Thanks Jay, I deleted the folder that I created in Documents and Settings (My
documents). The redirect that is in file location goes to Documents and
settings/owner/my recent documents.
One more question. I noticed in my Recent Documents folder a lot of short
cuts and also a foldercalled My Documents with all the files. Is this default
having the short cuts and the my document file? I also have (default) a
separate My Documents that is listed separately from C:/ in Explorer.
Anyway, if this looks correct then the problem is solved.
I notice that when I save a file now it is saved in My Documents and also in
Recent Documents. I guess this is the way it is to be set up. Thanks, Bob
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:27:13 -0800, Bob
wrote:
Hello, I had to recreate the folder My Documents in Documents and
Settings/owner/My Documents due to an error that I made that deleted the
original. I copied and paste all files that were in the stand alone My
Documents folder.
Now when I save a document it is placed into My documents. When I go to
Documents and Settings/owner/my documents, the file is not there. This just
started happening because all of My Document files prior to this week are in
both My Documents and Documents and Settings.
My question is when a file is saved in Word (2003) does it automatically
save itself in both My Documents and Documents and Settings/Owner/My
Documents? Any solutions if it is not saving itself in both folders?
Thanks, Bob
In Word, go to the Tools Options File Locations dialog.
Double-click the "Documents" item at the top of the list. That will
show you where Word wants to put your documents, and you can change it
to any other folder if you want to.
Word never saves in two places at once unless you specially create a
macro to do so (as in http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm).
But you really should not be saving documents in two places just
because you screwed up -- you should fix the problem by getting rid of
the folder that isn't under your user name.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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