Re: My Documents - why so many?

If they are only shortcuts then yes you may delete them without losing the document. The shortcuts are simply for your convenience and are placed there when you open a file and want to open it again later without having to navigate to it again.

J Lunis wrote: 
Dennis Marks wrote:

They are all shortcuts to "documents & Settings/Jay/My Documents"

"J Lunis" <jay.lunis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gM7Ge.13$4F5.3@xxxxxxxxxxx

Just getting around to asking this
I have a few 'My Document' folders' listed in Explorer.
Under Desktop
Under Documents & Settings\Jay
Between Mobile Devices and My Network Places
They appear identical.
Why do I need all these? Any way to delete some of them?




Very good. But can I delete all the shortcuts? 

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