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    Messed with my folder location.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by moleman4eva, Oct 30, 2011.

  1. moleman4eva

    moleman4eva Notebook Geek

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    Well I was messing around with laptop and I found out that I could change the location of my 'my documents','downloads''my picture' and stuffs like that to another folder. So, thats exactly what I did. I moved the location of all those files to my secondary harddrive. During that process I missed a step and ended up saving all my 'my documents' files on on the harddrive without any folder holding in it. For example, It was saved in E:/ instead of E:/My documents.

    Now I screwed it up. Everything that gets saved to my documents gets thrown to the harddrive but not to the folder because i forgot to specify the folder.

    Is there anyway to fix this?
     
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    BlackLion Notebook Consultant

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    Well, open that Location tab where you have changed the path and click Restore Default.
     
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    pusta Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, I would right click on My Documents and select Restore Default. However, I would not have it automatically move the contents back, since you made the E drive your My Documents, I believe it will move everything. So just reset default, and then manually move things back.
     
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    moleman4eva Notebook Geek

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    I did reset everything but I could not do it to the documents folder as there is no folder. Im not sure where to right click =.=

    worse to worse i gotta do a clean install again.

    Would running system restore work?

    update
    -looks like i fixed it- just right click on the whole e driver and and restored my document location. Silly me.

    cant find where i placed my desktop and download folder though. Must have deleted the whole dam thing accidentally.