Merge Document Folders

Bob,

Your E drive screenshot & those unadulerated paths give me the impression that the E:\ disk has either already been used to relocate user folders or, perhaps, that it used to be the OS drive.

I had thought that your E drive had not been used for anything else other than folders you had made on it manually. This can all be resolved.

Please would you right-click on each of the folders, select Properties and tell me whether or not each has a Location tab
Unadulterated C:\Users\Owner\Documents path C:\Users\Owner\Documents Location tab Yes/No
Unadulterated E:\Documents path {the first one, the one with the standard folder icon} E:\Documents Location tab Yes/No
Unadulterated E:\Documents path {the second one, the one with the document icon} E:\My Documents Location tab Yes/No

Denis

Bob,

I do not understand how the second one got its icon or its 'apparent' My documents path then.

If you right-click on the
Unadulterated E:\Documents path {the second one, the one with the document icon} E:\My Documents Location tab No
and select Rename,
- will it let you choose something like DocumentsOld {just to avoid mistakes later}
- and does it both display as that name and give its Unadulterated path as the same E:\DocumentsOld?

Knowing this will help with recovering from the situation but I still do not understand where references to My music are coming from unless it is a similar issue -

Paste each of these paths into the File explorer address bar

- Does C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Music exist?
- Does C:\Users\Owner\Documents\My music exist?

- Does E:\Documents\Music exist?
- Does E:\Documents\My music exist?

- Does E:\My documents\Music exist? or, if the renaming was successful, does E:\DocumentsOld\Music exist?
- Does E:\My documents\My music exist? or, if the renaming was successful, does E:\DocumentsOld\My music exist?

I think I know some of these answers already but seeing the whole set might clarify matters.

Denis

Keith -
Yes, I think that might be the case but I realised that the way I had asked the questions avoided checking those particular entries so that's why I appear to have just asked the OP to repeat those checks.
[I do not have any of them so it's easy to forget to check them in each case]

Denis

Correction - I should have avoided that with the /XA:SH switch, surely?

Bob,

I do want to see your results but I expect to suggest that you RoboCopy from one level down - I also do this a lot and it's not really a bother. I'll be able to tell you what to write if you are uncertain.

So, just using my own subfolders as examples, I expect to suggest that you run something like

Code:

RoboCopy "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Business" "E:\Documents\Business" /E  /DCOPY:DAT /XA:SH
RoboCopy "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Personal" "E:\Documents\Personal" /E  /DCOPY:DAT /XA:SH
RoboCopy "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Common" "E:\Documents\Common" /E  /DCOPY:DAT /XA:SH
RoboCopy "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Suppliers" "E:\Documents\Suppliers" /E  /DCOPY:DAT /XA:SH
RoboCopy "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\InfoSys" "E:\Documents\InfoSys" /E  /DCOPY:DAT /XA:SH

And a similar set will be required for the subfolders of E:\My documents / E:\DocumentsOld

If you can tell me the names of the subfolders immediately under C:\Users\Owner\Documents and E:\My documents / E:\DocumentsOld then I'll write out the list for you.

Denis

Bob,

We were typing at the same time.

You must be exasperated by now. I am merely baffled.

I suggest that you tell me the names of the subfolders immediately under C:\Users\Owner\Documents and E:\My documents / E:\DocumentsOld then I'll write out the list for you of RoboCopy commands from one level down that will put everything into the new E:\Documents folder for you.

Denis