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Location Tab Gone in Vista Documents Folder Properties Sheet
i am using vista ultimate on a HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop. when i fresh installed vista 2 days ago, i went to C:\Users\jasdak (that is my user name) and then right clicked documents, went to location tab, and then changed it to my local file server (\\192.168.1.168\jason\doc uments). then i clicked ok and everything was fine. one oddity was that if i went to my users folder i would see two documents folders; one was empty (the local one) and the other had all of my stuff (the network one). yesterday i wanted to switch it back to having my files locally instead of on the file server so i cut and pasted all my files from \\192.168.1.168\jason\docu ments to the local c:\users\jasdak\documents folder. then i noticed i still had two documents folder only now it was reversed, the local one had my fiels and the network one was empty. i deleted the empty one.
here's the problem. now when i click on the windows pearl and then click the documents link, nothing happens at all. if i right click on the link on the start menu and go to properties it is totally blank. everything is either blank or a zero. and if i go to my user folder and right click on any folder BESIDES documents, there is a location tab. if i right click on my documents folder there is NO location tab; although if i double click it it does correctly take me to my documents fodler i obviously deleted the special folder that has the location tab and i would really love to get it back because i am having some programs give me errors that they can't connect to my documents folder even though it is right there and functioning ok.
how can i restore the original documents folder; the one with the locaiton tab?
here's the problem. now when i click on the windows pearl and then click the documents link, nothing happens at all. if i right click on the link on the start menu and go to properties it is totally blank. everything is either blank or a zero. and if i go to my user folder and right click on any folder BESIDES documents, there is a location tab. if i right click on my documents folder there is NO location tab; although if i double click it it does correctly take me to my documents fodler i obviously deleted the special folder that has the location tab and i would really love to get it back because i am having some programs give me errors that they can't connect to my documents folder even though it is right there and functioning ok.
how can i restore the original documents folder; the one with the locaiton tab?
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I'm sorry, I don't have any other ideas. I would go ahead and try what you proposed (deleting the current documents folder), saving all of the data somewhere else first, of course.
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thanks anyway though
I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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1) the one in the start menu is all zeros on the property page and has nothing but a general tab
2) the one on the "favorite links" section has no location tab; just a general, shortcut, security, details, and previous versions.
3) the one in the C:\Users\jasdak\ folder has no location tab; just a general, sharing, security, previous versions, and customize.
i am tempted to delete the current documents folder to see if it will be restored by windows but i am a little hesitant. let me know if you have any other ideas. thanks!