Re: Organize application info 3 places Favorites, My Documents, My Programs
- From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:57:04 -0600
> In another post I am asking for help on understanding "Folder Pairs".
I posted with info on the only folder pairs that I know of.
> Seems like Windows XP allows you to keep more than one copy of a
> folder in more than one place in your system.
You can fill your hard drive with copies of one folder if you want to. XP
doesn't care how many copies you have or where you store them.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:i9kae1tm30mm3ifvcav0jd07cc1t7abi02@xxxxxxx,
JJ <jjyg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> Coincidentally you reference the Folder Pairs thing that I had asked
> about in another post in news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
> entitled "Folder Pairs what they area all about? what for?"
>
> Not sure what this has to do with my current post here though,
> ALTHOUGH as I read through your post you may have answered my question
> in the basics newsgroup quoted below in between the asterix rows.
>
> **********************************
> Seems like Windows XP allows you to keep more than one copy of a
> folder in more than one place in your system.
>
> I'm not talking about a shortcut to the folder but a second copy of
> the folder.
>
> I'm not comfortable with this but would like to better understand the
> reasons for, advantages of, and possible uses.
> **********************************
> Anyhow your post seems to imply that the Folder Pairs thing is pretty
> much about when you save web pages for off line viewing, and of course
> in order to do that you have to save the graphics files etc. and a
> folder is created to store that stuff that is accessed via the saved
> web page .htm file.
>
> My question here,
>
> Re: Organize application info 3 places Favorites, My Documents, My
> Programs
>
> has nothing to do with saved web pages for offline viewing.
>
> I'll elaborate by example.
>
> Take MS Outlook the program.
>
> Its installed on my computer, so naturally it appears in my Start /
> Programs hierarchy.
>
> Now there are some websites and online user forums and add-on software
> vendor sites relating to Outlook, so I probably have web shortcuts or
> a whole folder of web shortcuts to these Outlook related sites in my
> Favorites hierarchy.
>
> Now maybe I buy one of these add-on's and its a download install, no
> CD, so I keep that install files in a folder in My Documents. Also I
> glean some tips on how to use Outlook and keep them in little .txt
> files, again in My Documents. Maybe I keep my Email Account settings
> in a little .txt file in My Documents. I download a .pdf "How to
> customize Outlook" written by Joe Blow, and store it in My Documents.
>
> So my point is Outlook related material is stored in three different
> places 1) Start / Programs / Outlook 2) Favorites / Outlook 3) My
> Documents / Outlook.
>
> I'm thinking this is messy and would like to cut down from 3 to 2 or
> even one place to store things related to Outlook or to be able to
> view all three things as one entity someplace, some sort of glue to
> tie it altogether in some way, other than create two shortcuts in each
> of the locations pointing to the other two of the three locations.
> John "J.J." Jackson
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