APPDATA location? Help with hosed system after My Document..

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Timo,

Reset the Shell Folders paths to defaults:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Timo" <timo@noneofyer.biz> wrote in message
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> My Documents folder is located at "C:\Documents and Settings\{Me}\My
> Documents" (determined by right clicking on My Documents and then
> Properties). When I type %appdata% at the command line, it refers to
> "C:\Documents". Is the APPDATA location correct? There is an \Application
> Data folder beneath My Documents.
>
> My system seems to have gotten confused after I used the built-in
> utilities
> to relocate My Documents and restore it to its default location.
> Everything
> was apparently not deleted from the old location first time around, or not
> moved, and there are multiple copies of the same folder: FooFolder,
> FooFolder(1), FooFolder(2). I have restored to an earlier System Restore
> Point but that didn't clear things up.
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers.
> Timo
>
>