I've destroyed my default folder locations

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I keep my Vista pictures, videos, and music folders on a separate partition. All of these are linked to from my user folder on the Vista parition. However, recently I accidentally changed the drive letter of the partition with the actual folders on it. Since doing this, the shortcuts have dissapeared from my user folder, and the links at the top right of the start menu to absolutely nothing when clicked on. The properties dialogue for each looks something like this... link

Is there anywhere in Vista I can change the default locations of these folders back to their correct ones?

 

[Rebelius]

I posted basically the same a while ago, with my solution, but asking if there was a simpler way - but never got a response.

my solution was to change the drive letter of the partition back to what it was, then move them to somewhere temporary on a different partition, rename the drive again and move them back.

You don't actually have to move the files at all, that could take forever, just move the locations - your temporary location will be empty.

 

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I've tried changing the drive letter back. This seems to have made no difference

 

[EternalMovement]

On the start Menu type regedit to be able to edit the registry.

Browse to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Shell Folders

in the registry and check its correct in there e.g D:\Documents

Backup your registry by selecting file > export before changing anything to be on the safe side.

You might need to reboot after doing the above for it to take affect.

 

[Rebelius]

i guess your files are still there, right? just the music etc. folders have disappeared, so you can't right click on them to move their location?

Are you sure you changed the drive back to what it was before? worked fine for me on vista 32 a while back.

Can't try it again now as i'm at my parents'

You tried rebooting after re-naming the drive?

 

[bledd]

easy way of fixing it, is creating a new user account and using that, my mate did the same thing with his Documents folder (he formatted the partition that it was on) tried all sorts of dll registering and registry things, in the end we just made him a new user account

 

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Thanks for the advice guys. In the end I just left it for 30mins and when I came back Vista seemed to have 'fixed' itself. The folders had found themselves and all shortcuts were pointing to the new locations