My Pictures in User Folder has Disappeared

Fuzzball

Bronze Level Poster
I got a new Vortex III laptop with two drives today. A C: SSD and a D: HDD. All the My Documents/My Pictures/etc. were under C:/Users/MY NAME, and I've wanted to move all these folders to have a defaul location in D:. I've been using this guide (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147) to do so, and after getting confused at first (I made my whole D: drive my My Documents Folder, but then somehow fixed this!), I've now managed to move over the folders I want into D:/MY NAME'S Documents.

Somehow though, My Pictures has got lost. When I click MY NAME, it still shows the My Documents/etc. folders on that page, and when I click them it jumps to the D: drive, but My Pictures is not present in the MY NAME folder. It's still in the D: drive, but when I R click --> Properties it, it doesn't give me a Location tab to click on, whereas it does for all the other folders.

What's happened here? Why can't I undo this and make My Pictures default to C:/Users again?

If I use the system recovery disc I created soon after starting up my computer for the first time, will that take my computer back to the state before I started messing around with folders? Or will it not affect documents stuff? If not, is there a way I can completely reset a PC Specialist computer?
 

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
If you mean by a "system recovery disc" a "system repair disc",then I don't think that would help,
You could try a system restore point if one is available ,failing that probably best do a clean install of the operating system with your OS disk and install drivers with the disks provided,this will set every thing back to square one.
 
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Fuzzball

Bronze Level Poster
Well, I did a system restore to a point created before I'd installed some programs and before I'd started moving the folders around, and everything was back in their original place. I was then able to move their target locations without problems this time.

COMPUTERS ARE WEIRD.
 
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