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Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

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On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:28:26 +0200, Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On 11 July 2015 at 02:24,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
>> The My Documents directory is not guaranteed to be named "Documents". On
>> older versions of windows it was "My Documents", and on foreign versions
>> of windows it is a name in their language.
>
>That’s not necessarily “older”.
>
>Windows XP/7/8: My Documents
>Windows Vista/8.1: Documents
>
	On Win7, it DISPLAYS as "My Documents", but it exists as "Documents" in
the actual file system and on the command-line.

(snipped for brevity)

PS C:\Users\Wulfraed> ls

    Directory: C:\Users\Wulfraed

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d-r--          7/5/2015  10:40 PM            Documents
d-r--          7/4/2015  11:07 AM            Downloads

d-r--         3/12/2015   7:54 PM            Music

d-r--         3/12/2015   7:54 PM            Pictures

d-r--         3/12/2015   7:54 PM            Videos

PS C:\Users\Wulfraed>

	If I open that same directory using the Windows Explorer, I see a
cluster of

My Documents
My Music
My Pictures
My Videos

	Opening properties for those makes available a "Location" tab, by which
one can set the "My xxx" to /any/ directory desired.

	For easing transition of old software, there ARE hidden "junction
points" in the file system that redirect to the new locations:

C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>dir my*
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents

06/11/2015  08:18 AM    <DIR>          My Barnes & Noble eBooks
06/09/2013  07:39 PM    <DIR>          My Data Sources
06/09/2013  05:01 PM    <DIR>          My Digital Editions
12/19/2013  09:19 PM    <DIR>          My Downloads
06/05/2015  09:05 AM    <DIR>          My eBooks
06/09/2013  07:44 PM    <DIR>          My Garmin
06/09/2013  07:44 PM    <DIR>          My Movies
06/09/2013  07:45 PM    <DIR>          My Scanner Data Files
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               8 Dir(s)  1,499,112,079,360 bytes free

C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>dir /AL
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents

06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Music [C:\Users\Wulfraed\Music]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Pictures
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\Pictures]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Videos [C:\Users\Wulfraed\Videos]
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  1,499,112,079,360 bytes free

C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>cd ..

C:\Users\Wulfraed>dir /AL
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Wulfraed

06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Application Data
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Cookies
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Wind
ows\Cookies]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Local Settings
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Local]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Documents
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     NetHood
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     PrintHood
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcuts]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Recent
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     SendTo
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Start Menu
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu]
06/01/2013  03:45 PM    <JUNCTION>     Templates
[C:\Users\Wulfraed\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates]
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              10 Dir(s)  1,499,112,079,360 bytes free

C:\Users\Wulfraed>
C:\>dir "Users\Wulfraed\My Documents"
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Wulfraed\My Documents

File Not Found

C:\>

	I'd like to point out that I did NOT type the My Documents; I type My
and tab completion found the junction point name to fill in...

-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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  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
      Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:48 -0700
        Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:56 -0700
  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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