Vista special folder default locations

[kevvyb]

Can anyone help....?

 

I have tried moving the default locations of the Vista special folders now a few times by using the move location route. All seems to go well until at some point, something goes wrong or I do something wrong and I find a whole host of files being copied over when I know there is nothing in the default folder location as yet. These files seem to have nothing to do with the folder I am moving.

 

What is happening? Trying to work it out and put everything back where it was does not see very straightforward. On this I much preferred XP. Right click myDocuments, Move, Browse, OK. Done. The whole lot. This way of doing it in Vista is a complete pain in the arse in comparison.

 

For now I've given up and am just leaving them where they are, after another reinstall (no repair options as this is a recovery disk). But I don't want to be beaten by this. So can anyone suggest where I may be going wrong, if I am...?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Why are you trying to move default windows files like say My Documents elsewhere?

[kevvyb]

Changing special folders default Vista

 

I have always kept two copies on different internal hard drives as well as an external, off-site copy. Main benefit now I think about it a bit more is with defragmenting the system drive (data gets much less fragemeted when seperated from the system files I find).

 

Other reasons I have now realised can be met in other ways. Faster virus scanning of system but that can be acheived by adding extra scanning schedules.

 

This what I have always done with XP to guard against drive failure and system theft. Not taking any chances ;)

 

Internal Disk 0 - Files stored in My Documents (XP) but relocated to a seperate data partition to the system.

 

Internal disk 1 - Realtime and 30 minute mirror of data partition above.

 

External Off-site Disk - Weekly mirror of data partition.

[kevvyb]

Thanks for the replies. I have now come to the conclusion that moving the special folders does not have as many benefits as I originally though. Given that it seems to be much harder than on XP, I am going to leave the data on the system drive.

 

Thanks again