Moving User Folders in

Moving User Folders in vista ultimate 32 bit

#1 Joshuah

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 07:06 PM

Maybe someone can help, when I installed vista Ultimate back in October, everything went smoothly. I have two hard drives one for my OS and the other for my Data. I then created a folder hierarchy that mirrored my user profile folders on my data partition. I moved the default user folder locations no problem by going to the folders PROPERTIES>LOCATION>MOVE. Simple right??? Then in December, my computer had a Hiccup, where it just randomly restarted. When vista restarted again i got the welcome screen, and all of my preferences were gone, it was like I installed vista for the first time. When i tried to move my folders again, i right clicked on properties>Location

And got this.

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No MOVE option, no options at all. I can't go in and type the location in, it won't allow that. I'm stuck. It's not THAT big of a deal, I have set up shortcuts on my desktop to my actual data files, but it would be nice having them integrated with my OS so i don't have to specify the location each time I try to access a file.

Any thoughts?

I have the user control settings off, and i have tried to restart in safe mode and change the file locations with no luck.

#2 usasma

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 07:22 PM

Likely it's a minor corruption in your user profile. IMO it's not worth fixing - as you'd have to redo everything in a new profile in order to get it working right.

Still, I'd suggest that you run SFC.EXE /SCANNOW from an elevated (run as administrator) Command Prompt.

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#3 Joshuah

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 07:31 PM

"windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations"

What do you mean i would have to do everything in a new profile?

#4 usasma

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 06:09 AM

First, you'd have to create a new profile and test the Move function in there to be sure that it works for you.

Then the steps are:
- reset all your preferences and settings in the new profile
- reset the redirection to your folders on the other drive
- take ownership of all your files and folders
- delete the old profile

You can't import the stuff from your old profile to your new one as you don't know which setting/preference is causing the issue.

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