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Thanks for your help! I think I have it sorted out- they were duplicates
because they increased the size of my hard drive by several gigs. I removed
from the shared folder and now I just have them under my account. I'm trying
to find a good method of sharing the my pictures and music folders with my
wife but I have discovered that some programs just won't access anything from
the shared directory- they only see the individual user's directories...
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
> The system folders can be viewed from many places but that does not mean
> they installed more than once. If you have System Restore enabled, go to
> Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Utilities>System Restore and pick a
> restore point a day or so before you started all this. See if that undoes
> the problem.
>
> "jcoffin" <jcoffin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E885F689-8697-465B-9BD2-E27D7111BD3F@microsoft.com...
> > I'm not sure how to get out of what I've already done. I think that I
> > have
> > duplicates of both my "my pictures" and my "my music" folders in both the
> > section under me as a user and under the all users folder. I'm confused
> > as
> > to what I should delete at this point. I tried deleting the files out of
> > the all users directory but then I showed nothing when I went to my
> > pictures
> > from the start menu. It's even hard to tell at this point whether these
> > are
> > actually duplicates or not. It sounds like you're saying that as long as
> > I
> > have the folders in both locations, moving the files to the shared
> > directory
> > will show them in the user and in the shared as long as there is a folder
> > labeled my pictures. Did that make any sense what I just said? I'm
> > starting
> > to confuse myself again...
> >
> >
> > "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
> >
> >> Drag the contents but not the folder. Create a new folder for the
> >> pictures.
> >> The My Pictures Folder is a system folder. Select all (CTRL-A) to
> >> highlight
> >> all the pictures in the My Pictures Folder and then drag using the right
> >> mouse button to the new folder. A context menu will appear when you
> >> release
> >> the mouse button. Choose move instead of copy.
> >>
> >> "jcoffin" <jcoffin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:8C0F2B96-4BA4-4833-9819-98A748B08A64@microsoft.com...
> >> > I'm new to multiple users on the same machine. I dragged my pictures
> >> > folder
> >> > into the shared folder and I can't seem to get it so I haven't created
> >> > two
> >> > sets of folders meaning I have doubled the several gigs of pictures
> >> > from
> >> > my
> >> > pictures into the shared folder. Can someone explain to me how I
> >> > should
> >> > do
> >> > this and not duplicate files on my hard drive?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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