Re: Documents and Settings Folder - User Name

From: Scott (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:49:34 -0800

Ronnie:
Thanks again for the info. Last night I printed out the
knowledge base articles that you suggested and went
through each. I was able to get the files copied over to a
new user but I could not delete the old mispelled folder
because it said it was a "windows system folder and cannot
be deleted". I went into safe mode and tried to take
ownership rights and was unable to do it because I could
not get to the security tab on the folder. How do you do
that? Somehow though I still lost some data in the
process. All my settings for outlook were gone and all the
files like .doc and .xls files disappeared. I did a system
recovery but could not get back to it's original state so
I must have messed something up when I copied the stuff
over. I reinstalled office and got outlook up and running
but will have to go to my back up for some of my files. I
think most are gone though.
Any ideas?

Thanks!
Scott
>-----Original Message-----
>Scott wrote:
>> Ronnie:
>> Thanks! I will give it a try. Sounds like a simple
problem
>> but difficult to correct. Is it easier to just reinstall
>> the operating system and give my correct spelling?
>>
>
>Scott
>
>I wouldn't recommend reinstalling. Chance that you could
lose some data.
>--
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User
>
>Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
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>
>
>.
>

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