TheWildInside
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I can find nothing, either in Win 7's Help (64-bit on a Dell Vostro 3550 laptop) or at Microsoft's forums, about a frustrating Win 7 issue and am hoping someone out here can tell me if there's a setting to fix this or if I'm just going to have to learn to deal with it.
I have a LOT of folders beneath my primary "My Documents" folder. I have a small jewelry business, I help coordinate a local Arts Fest, I have photos, recipes, correspondence, health, family-related stuff, and on and on. Recently I had several folders containing a lot of files that I felt could be better searched by adding sub folders separating out smaller categories beneath the main folder (I.e. My Pictures has sub folders for jewelry, home, dog, historic, etc.). What I discovered was, I thought I was MOVING these files from the primary folder into their appropriate newly created sub folders only to later discover when I went back at a later time that ALL the files separated, neatly I thought, into their tidy sub folders, had somehow reappeared beneath the primary folder. What this means is that all of these files are now taking up twice as much space. One file in the primary folder and a copy in the sub folder. This maintains the primary folder as a bulky and awkward place and useless to me for file searching (I used to keep stuff in the primary file that didn't fit into a sub folder category, and/or if there weren't enough of these misc sorts of files to warrant creating a new sub folder), but if I try to DELETE the file from the primary folder, the copy also disappears from the sub folder and I have to go out to the recycle bin and "restore" .. and, of course, it restores the files to both places!
I've still got plenty of space left on the laptop, but that's sort of beside the point. My whole point was to tidy up the files, and while I can search through the sub folders, the continued presence of all those files in the primary folder makes me crazy. Is there something I'm missing, setting wise??
Losing hair in northern NY
Karan
I have a LOT of folders beneath my primary "My Documents" folder. I have a small jewelry business, I help coordinate a local Arts Fest, I have photos, recipes, correspondence, health, family-related stuff, and on and on. Recently I had several folders containing a lot of files that I felt could be better searched by adding sub folders separating out smaller categories beneath the main folder (I.e. My Pictures has sub folders for jewelry, home, dog, historic, etc.). What I discovered was, I thought I was MOVING these files from the primary folder into their appropriate newly created sub folders only to later discover when I went back at a later time that ALL the files separated, neatly I thought, into their tidy sub folders, had somehow reappeared beneath the primary folder. What this means is that all of these files are now taking up twice as much space. One file in the primary folder and a copy in the sub folder. This maintains the primary folder as a bulky and awkward place and useless to me for file searching (I used to keep stuff in the primary file that didn't fit into a sub folder category, and/or if there weren't enough of these misc sorts of files to warrant creating a new sub folder), but if I try to DELETE the file from the primary folder, the copy also disappears from the sub folder and I have to go out to the recycle bin and "restore" .. and, of course, it restores the files to both places!
I've still got plenty of space left on the laptop, but that's sort of beside the point. My whole point was to tidy up the files, and while I can search through the sub folders, the continued presence of all those files in the primary folder makes me crazy. Is there something I'm missing, setting wise??
Losing hair in northern NY
Karan