Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

From	random832@fastmail.us
Subject	Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory
Date	2015-08-01 02:50 -0400
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 03:28, Chris Warrick wrote:
> That’s not necessarily “older”.
> 
> Windows XP/7/8: My Documents
> Windows Vista/8.1: Documents

Mine's called Documents on 7 and 8. Is the system you got this
information from a new install or an upgrade? (It may also depend on
whether it's a new *user profile* or one from before the upgrade)

> As for localized versions, Vista and up do the translation in Windows
> Explorer but use English names on disk.
> 
> …but even with all that, users (or their administrators) can move the
> My Documents folder away from the home directory (to a file server,
> for example).

Yeah, the real point is that it can be an arbitrary location, but I was
just illustrating that even in *default* circumstances it won't always
be Documents

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Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 09:27 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-10 15:47 +0100
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-10 17:11 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-10 16:12 +0100
    Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 10:25 -0500
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  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-07-10 09:46 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-07-10 20:24 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 09:28 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-11 11:47 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-01 02:50 -0400

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