That's because there is no "C:\Documents and Settings" folder on the Win7 OS as well as Vista. For security reasons, uniform programming interfaces, and to make a whole bunch of software vendors happy, everything you do is maintained within your own "User Profile" while you are logged onto a Win7/Vista system. And as such, everything goes into the "C:\Users\Joe Blow\" folder.
For those users that may use Windows Explorer to view these folders, you might exclaim "But my computer does have a "C:\Documents and Settings" folder! Not really....it's just a junction point or shortcut to be used by the OS to point to the real location. These phantom folder are there only to provide backwards compatibility for older programs that are unaware of the new folder structure in Windows 7. A program that is hardcoded to install files in the old Documents and Settings will be silently redirected to the new location. Thank you Mr. Gates. And just to keep this all somewhat on-topic, Legacy and Win7 do make an appropriate use of the "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Virtual Store" folder. And that's as deep as we need to go. Finally, you need to make your posts to this LUG in plain text only. The playground supervisor has said that HTML is not allowed. Brian in CA ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] restore multimedia to Windows 7 Legacy file was backed up on Windows XP and then restored to a Windows 7 computer. The data files work correctly. The multimedia backup was restored to the root c:\ on the Windows 7 computer but it placed the un-zipped files into C:\Users instead of C:\Documents and Settings. Legacy displays the multimedia files without complaint even though all the paths to multimedia are still set to the c:\documents and settings... Is there something in Windows 7 that substitutes c:\users any time it finds c:\documents and settings? When trying to change a picture location, the error 3051 is produced which does not exist in the list of numbered errors for Legacy. Help please. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
