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Path to My Documents in W2K and 98
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If there is, I don't know of it. I suspect not.

>No problem, in the mean time I did give it a shot and it did move my docs for me. Thanks for your help. In the same vein, is it possible to do the same for other folders under "C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\"
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>>Sorry for the delay. I was out of town.
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>>Changing the location of my documents only effect what is to be saved in my documents. Their preferences etc don't move or point to another location. If you look at C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\ you will see that "My Documents" is there. There are also directories for the "Local Settings", "Templates" etc.
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>>Also, changing the location of what the PC considers to be "My Documents" does not move the existing data. So you may need to copy what's in "C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\My Documents\" to it's new location.
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>>>Thanks Kenneth. I didn't know how to change the pathing now I will be able to do so, but does this mean that the whole jing-bang of other directories like preferences of the user will still be stored in the original location or are they all movable too?
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>>>>Personally, I don't save application data in My Documents. I hate that MS always wants to think for you. You could change the location of My Documents to be the same on both PCs.
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>>>>My PC at Work (Win 2K) is locked down, but on my PC at home (Win 2K as well), I changed the location of My Documents. I beleive it was as simple as right clicking on My Documents and changing it under Properties. Let me know if that doesn't work and I'll double check how I did it when I get home. HIH Kenny
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>>>>>I have an application using My Documents and I have two sets of the same data but one is on a 98 and another is on W2K, residing in My Documents. The path to My Documents is hard coded in the W2K machine c:\Documents and Setting ......\My Documents\DirName\FileName.ext now the same data on the 98 machine is just c:\My Documents\DirName\FileName.ext. I doubt if the application will be able to use env. vars.
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>>>>>Any suggesstions. Right now I have created a similar directory structure in 98 but it doesn't feel right.
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