This process will not work as you must reboot to get the new location of the My Documents folder. Rebooting is not an option.

>Using VFP and Word Mail Merge on Citrix. The Citrix machine is locked down tight. So when the client trys to do complete the Mail Merge in Word that VFP launched, they can not access \My Documents\My Data Sources, which is where the datasource file resides. So the Citrix guy suggested that he map a drive letter R:\ back to a server where the clients have access. Guess the step after that would be to ...
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>1) if !directory() - create a R:\%username%\my documents\
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>2) copy the contents of My documents on C:\ to R:\%username%\my documents. The client can not save to this folder so it should be not much in it.
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>3) if !directory() - create a R:\%username%\my documents\my data sources
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>4) copy data source file to My Data Sources
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>5) change the registry to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - software - Microsoft -windows - currentversion - explorer - shell folders - Name "Personal"
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>6) fall into code to launch Word
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>Getting a bit confused about if I should copy the data from C:\ to R:\ and then change the registry or visa versa?
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>Also, What are the User Shell folders? Mine have %USERPROFILE% in the Data path. Is this common and would I have to change anything in the User Shell Folders?
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>Thanks
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>Brenda