Super User Stack Exchange
Super User Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [my-documents]

52 questions
21
votes
4 answers

Keep programs from using My Documents

Is there any way to keep programs from using the My Documents folder (on Windows 7)? Some programs put their stuff in %USERNAME%\My Documents, and I would rather this go to some place like %APPDATA%. I know I could manually symlink each folder a…
Mateen Ulhaq
  • 3,452
  • 6
  • 35
  • 56
14
votes
3 answers

Display "My Documents"/"My Videos"/etc. without "My" prefix in Windows 7

Even though Windows 7 stores special folders in the home folder as Documents/Videos/etc, they are still displayed as My Documents/My Videos/etc in Windows Explorer. I preferred the way that Vista displayed them (i.e. without the "My" prefix). Is…
Jacob
  • 581
  • 5
  • 12
10
votes
2 answers

Why do I have three My Documents folders?

I'm trying to fix my profile on Windows 7. Currently %USERPROFILE% points to C:\Users\myUsername My Documents is also at C:\Users\myUsername \\profileServer\profiles$\myUsername has TWO "My Documents" folders Neither of these folders contain what's…
Kris Harper
  • 1,047
  • 3
  • 11
  • 24
4
votes
2 answers

How to link My Documents folder to the logical Documents folder in Windows 7

In windows 7 the My Documents folder resides under the logical Documents folder on the left side of Windows Explorer. A friend of mine clicked on My Documents and (silly him) erased it by deleting it. Of couse the My Documents folder is still under…
Jonathan
  • 3,719
  • 14
  • 54
  • 71
4
votes
1 answer

How to stop OneDrive from acting as default Documents folder

After setting up a bunch of programs on my new laptop I noticed that Windows has made a folder inside OneDrive that's called Documents. Furthermore it acts as my default Documents folder and I noticed that the programs I've installed store a bunch…
CoffeeQuest
  • 51
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
3
votes
1 answer

How do I fix my "My Documents"?

I had a harddrive failure (Click of death) which is where "My Documents" was located. Now, when I try to boot Windows XP, it cannot start up. How do I fix the issue so I can boot up? Do I just need to add a new drive so that the D: can be found?
Joshua
  • 249
  • 1
  • 5
  • 10
3
votes
3 answers

OSX Shortcut to User Folder

How do I create a shortcut on the desktop to Users[me] in Mac OSX? Ctrl+Click does not have an option for Make Alias on this directory
Michael
  • 467
  • 2
  • 11
  • 19
3
votes
2 answers

Stop programs creating spam folders in Windows user Documents folder by conditionally changing the environment variable per application

As can be seen from other questions across the Internet and right here on SuperUser (e.g. Keep programs from using My Documents), Windows users find it very annoying that programs decide for themselves to add their own folders to the user Documents…
Virgil Ierubino
  • 43
  • 7
2
votes
0 answers

"Windows Security" alert when moving files in My Documents/Desktop (local disk)

Every time I try to move a file to a different location in My Documents or on the Desktop by dragging it I get a "Windows Security" alert telling me "These files might be harmful to your computer". I am not trying to move files across a network or…
RCrowt
  • 156
  • 4
2
votes
1 answer

Folder Redirection Doesn't work in Windows 7 or Vista

I am running a Windows Server 2003 Domain, and most of our clients are Windows XP. In the Domain Policy I have folder redirection turned on for Documents and Desktop. This works great on my XP machines but not on my Vista and Windows 7 machines. …
Russ Bradberry
  • 879
  • 5
  • 12
  • 21
2
votes
3 answers

Rename "Documents" folder in Windows 7

I use a different name for "Documents" folder. Previously I had to rename it after every windows update, because updates kept changing it back. Now I am unable to rename it to the same old name anymore. After typing the name and pressing enter, it…
Justinas Dūdėnas
  • 618
  • 5
  • 9
  • 23
2
votes
3 answers

Map My Documents Folder to New Location in Windows 7

How can I map the location of the My Documents folder on Windows 7 to a new location? My system has a 60GB SSD as the primary/boot drive and a 160GB HDD. I would like the My Documents folder to be on the HDD, not the SSD. Thanks.
Jim Fell
  • 5,836
  • 16
  • 55
  • 76
2
votes
3 answers

My Documents Folder - Path different to folder name

In Windows 7 I had moved My Documents to My D:\ drive and called it "Docs". I have since added other folders (for my wife and kids) so have renamed it with my name "Ciaran" In both Windows 7 and Windows 10, the display folder name was "Ciaran" but…
Ciaran Martin
  • 143
  • 1
  • 2
  • 9
2
votes
1 answer

Accidentally pinned My Documents folder to HDD

So I was following these instructions here (https://www.pcworld.com/article/2025058/answer-line-move-data-files-from-an-ssd-to-a-hard-drive.html) to move the My Documents folder to the new HDD I'd just formatted (D:). When choosing "move" to a new…
lowly_junior_sysadmin
  • 121
  • 3
2
votes
1 answer

Recover "My Documents" folder documents from Old Hard Drive

I am trying to recover my GF's four-year architecture work (assignments and designs) from her recently gone-for-good Asus N73 laptop running Windows 10. I have detached the hard drive from the laptop and connected it to an external hard drive…
HappyProgrammer
  • 121
  • 1
  • 3
1
2 3 4