Vista renamed my folder

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I'm using folder redirection from a Windows 2003 domain to redirect
the My Documents folder to \\servername\username.

The one Vista machine on the network (mine) had that folder's name
changed from the username to Documents. Changed the icon too.

What is going on with that? At the DOS prompt, it still shows the
username, so why is the GUI name changed?
 
Caveman734563 Wrote:
> I'm using folder redirection from a Windows 2003 domain to redirect
> the My Documents folder to \\servername\username.
>
> The one Vista machine on the network (mine) had that folder's name
> changed from the username to Documents. Changed the icon too.
>
> What is going on with that? At the DOS prompt, it still shows the
> username, so why is the GUI name changed?

Open the start menu, right-click on "Documents", then select
properties. Click on the "Location" tab, and chances are the current
location will be pointing to '\"\\servername\username'
(file://\\servername\username)". But whatever location it is pointing
to, it doesn't necessarily need to be named "documents"

As with XP and "My Documents", the "Documents" folder in Vista is a
virtual folder. The only difference is that the "My" prefix was removed
for the same reason why "Documents and Settings" was renamed to "Users"
- it makes using command line utilities easier to use when folders have
single word names.


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"Caveman" <w_hartla@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I'm using folder redirection from a Windows 2003 domain to redirect
> the My Documents folder to \\servername\username.

Haven't you got the GPO making the folders automatically? Also, that seems
a bit messy having the folders at root. \\server\users\%USERNAME%

> The one Vista machine on the network (mine) had that folder's name
> changed from the username to Documents. Changed the icon too.

Yeah, I have seen that happen at an architect's office with about 20
workstations. If you went to the root share, say \\server\users, there
would be 20 identical Documents folders, and all the other redirected
folders x20. Pretty ridiculous. Have to redirect up to 11 different
folders, plus AppData for each profile is a massive pain as well. As for
other folders that apps make within the User folder, they never get
redirected at all. It was a lot lot less hassle before, but most of those
folders can be discarded.

> What is going on with that? At the DOS prompt, it still shows the
> username, so why is the GUI name changed?

It turned out to be the desktop.ini files in the folder, renaming them with
a friendly name. You can either delete them or edit them.

ss.
 
"Dzomlija" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm using folder redirection from a Windows 2003 domain to redirect
>> the My Documents folder to \\servername\username.
>>
>> The one Vista machine on the network (mine) had that folder's name
>> changed from the username to Documents. Changed the icon too.
>>
>> What is going on with that? At the DOS prompt, it still shows the
>> username, so why is the GUI name changed?
>
>
> Open the start menu, right-click on "Documents", then select
> properties. Click on the "Location" tab, and chances are the current
> location will be pointing to '\"\\servername\username'
> (file://\\servername\username)".

Er, what the hell is that?

> But whatever location it is pointing
> to, it doesn't necessarily need to be named "documents"

I think that's pretty obvious to anybody.

> As with XP and "My Documents", the "Documents" folder in Vista is a
> virtual folder.

Er, no they are not - they physically exist on the hard drive, as a regular
folder. If you do not know what a virtual folder is, look at Saved
Searches, or the Recycle Bin.

> The only difference is that the "My" prefix was removed
> for the same reason why "Documents and Settings" was renamed to "Users"
> - it makes using command line utilities easier to use when folders have
> single word names.

That's just a fortunate side-effect, when using 'command line utilities'.
NT4 had registry & settings and documents in different folders for each
user, which was messy. Win2000 made it neater, but the name, while
descriptive, was stupid. C:\Users is used on servers almost as standard
practice, so it just makes sense. It's more scaleable and modular by
default now, and is a bit more like how /Usr in Unix has been doing for
decades.

ss.
 
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