In a message dated 5/18/01 1:36:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- >I am having trouble with the "My Documents" folder. It is on my desk top ok >but when I try to save something to it and I am in the explore window I can >not find it. >I have checked properties of the folder and it says it is in C drive >Windows.000 then desktop. But going there does not work for some reason. >Could someone check to see if the folder is where it should be? Any help >would be appreciated. Larry, I'm a bit surprised at some of the replies to your question. If you can actually see the "my documents" folder on your desktop and you've checked it's properties (right-click on the folder and select "properties" from the context menu), and properties says its location is c:\windows.000\desktop, then that's where it is. To check that it's a valid folder and working properly you could select it with the left mouse button and tap ENTER (or double-click). It should open in its own window and display a list of the files it contains. To save anything to this folder (eg from a word processor) use the file/save-as option from the menu bar and browse to C: then Windows.000 then desktop, then "my documents". At this stage the "save in" slot in the dialogue box should say "my documents" Of course you have to progressively open each of these folders (by double clicking or selecting the "open" button in the dialogue box), to see it's contents and get to the next folder in the path. My apologies if you already know all this. There's nothing special about the name Windows.000 as far as I know. You could instal Windows 9x in a folder with such a name (I recall that my first computer with Windows 95 had the name Windows.000 for its main folder, instead of the more usual "Windows") If you still can't access this folder, there may be something wrong with the application you're trying to save from. You could:- 1) test this by opening Notepad (Start/programs/accessories) and saving a test file to the "my documents" folder from there to see if Notepad's save-as facility can find it, 2) if still no good, make your own folder on the desktop. Right click somewhere on the desktop where there's a clear space, select "new" then "folder" from the context menu, and rename the "new folder" which appears - say call it "my docs". Now see if you can save to your new folder. Cheers, John Selby. __________________ John Selby Really appreciate your time John and I think I have it fixed. My problem was that I could find it by using explorer but when in any application it would not show up using the same path. Finally Clint told me to go to the actual folder and right click on it making a shortcut then drag the shortcut to the desktop. That works. LarryB ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
