Re: XP files question

Richard wrote:

Hopefully someone can help me with this....

I have my documents in the traditional "documents & settings\ my
name \ my documents\ *.*

Is there a way to truncate the path name? I have software that will
manage my documents but the long path name causes some problems. I
realize I can just use a subdirectory in the root directory - is
there any reason not to move to the root? Any limits on files within
the root or any particular subdirectory? Can I rename a subdirectory
as a drive (which would be perfect for my use).

On XP there isn't any reason not to create a folder for this
presumably older program at the root of C:\.

Malke

Check it out with Explorer: "My Documents" is the same as the full path
"c:\....". It's a special system file. Simply use "My Documents";
it'll get there. Try it; experiment and play with it. The system
folder "My Documents" is nothing but a shortcut to the fully pathed
C:\Documents and ... \My documents folder.

Also, there is a very good reason to use it, unless you never bother to
back up and don't care whether you lose files or not because you never
backed anything up. By bakcing up Documents and Settings, which
includes that folder, you are backing up EVERYTHING you need w/r to your
data and program settings, to restore a catastrophic disk failure.
Help and Support has some good explanations if you care to check
there.

--
Regards,

PopRivet

Nope, not going to Vista. Why?
Simple: It offers me nothing I need nor
even want that I don't already have.
So, why switch? NOT gonna happen.


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