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Vista Documents folder err
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantjlyon1515
Registered: March 22, 2007
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I'm currently running Vista Home Premium, and moved the location of my Documents folder to a seperate hard drive (U:/Documents). The fold works exactly as it should, when I click on the Start orb and click Documents, it goes to the correct place.

Here's the problem though. When I click on the Start orb and click on my username, it correctly brings  me to my user directory showing all the special folders and whatnot (Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, etc.), but there are TWO Documents folders. One that is the special folder (it has the fancy icon) and one that is just a normal folder. The only thing in the normal folder is the DVD Profiler folder.

I have a feeling that the code to create the settings folder is just a little screwed up. For example, it just says
"Go to %User%/Documents (if Documents doesn't exist create it), and put the DVD Profiler folder in there."
What it should say is
"Go to %Documents%, and put the DVD Profiler folder in there."

Do you see what I mean?

Thanks in advance for any advice fixing this. I've tried deleting the entire non-special Documents folder, and moving the DVD Profiler folder into my real Docuemtns folder, but the program just keeps creating the non-special Documents folder.

Is there not a way to set where DVD Profiler saves me settings to? If there was, I would just point it to the correct place.
Invelos Software, Inc. RepresentativeKen Cole
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Registered: March 10, 2007
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No, we don't create the documents folder, nor do we look for the directory that way.  DVD Profiler calls the Windows API via SHGetSpecialFolderLocation and SHGetPathFromIDList (both in shell32.dll), passing CSIDL_PERSONAL to get the users' My Documents folder.  Then, we create a "DVD Profiler" directory there. 

Is the only symptom the extra empty folder, or is the program unable to locate the files it needs?

In answer to your last question, it is not possible to reconfigure these file locations in the current version.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorLewis_Prothero
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Registered: May 19, 2007
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Here's a little workaround.
Create a backup of your database, then go to menu "File -> Open Database... " here you can create a new database with a user-defined location. In the new database import the backup. If everything works fine delete the original database.
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantjlyon1515
Registered: March 22, 2007
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Quoting Ken Cole:
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Is the only symptom the extra empty folder, or is the program unable to locate the files it needs?


It's not an empty folder. It's got a folder called Databases, and in Databases is a folder Default, and in Default are folders Images and Pending plus a bunch of DAT, IDX, and BLB files.

Ya know, now that I got to thinking, it might have happened because I installed DVD Profiler and ran it before I moved the Documents folder. So it may have like retained the old location or something. I don't think I would have done that, but I don't remember.

Regardless, I did goblinsdoitall's suggestion and everything seems to be fixed now.

Thanks so much to both of you for your extremely speedy reply!
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorLewis_Prothero
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Glad to be able to help.
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantTakaikkuna
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I have also moved Documents folder to a different drive. I have never seen DVDProfiler make a new Documents folder in C: drive. I even tested it by renaming 'DVD Profiler' and starting the program: DVDProfiler correctly created new folder in D:\<username>\Documents.
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