Re: My Documents - appears 3 times -which does System Restore not restore?
- From: Malke <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:16:43 -0700
xylophone wrote:
I understand System Restore will not restore/protect files in My
Documents,
such as doc. files, meaning that on a restore such files will not be
affected and I need not worry. My actual worry is to know which of the 3
My
Documents folders I have in Explorer System Restore does not restore.
These three are clones of each other in that they contain exactly the same
folders. Going down from Desktop, The first is Desktop\My Computer\Local
Disk\Documents and Settings\my name\My Documents - the second is
Desktop\My Computer\my name (is called my name and not My Documents, but
has the same contents as the two so-called My Documents, so I refer to it
here as the
second My Documents) - the third is Desktop\My Documents. So which of
these does System Restore ignore?
BTW, why does Explorer maintain three versions of these? Which is the one
ordinary users like me should look out for as the 'controlling' My
Documents, as it were? I have always wondered about these particular
questions.
You don't have three different versions. You only have one My Documents,
which is at:
C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\My Documents
The others are just shortcuts to this directory. System Restore doesn't
restore your data.
Malke
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