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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Favorite Links eats my entire folders
Hello. I'm super-new at this forum, but after searching around, I found posts from someone that had a very similar problem to mine, so I thought I'd try my luck too, and see if anyone knows how to fix this. :) My problem is that I accidentally deleted my -C:\Users......\Links- folder earlier, and then everything under "Favorite Links" in folder view disappeared. I found a way to re-create it by doing a -RUN>shell:links- command. This did the trick, but now, when I drag a folder onto the Favorite Links, the folder itself is moved into -C:\Users......\Links,- and not just a shortcut to the folder. When I drag a folder onto Favorite Links, I want a shortcut to that folder appear -- I don't want the whole folder to move into -C:\Users......\Links. :( -I'm sorry if it's hard to understand this; my English isn't very good.If someone has any idea how to fix this problem (can it be done in the registry, perhaps?), I would be very happy if you could post here :)  Signaturepinoniceusagi This might be simple enough to work for you, Place a shortcut on the desktop, (right click the folder, etc) then drag that shortcut to where you want it. :) Hope that helps. > Hello. I'm super-new at this forum, but after searching around, I found > posts from someone that had a very similar problem to mine, so I thought [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > good.If someone has any idea how to fix this problem (can it be done in > the registry, perhaps?), I would be very happy if you could post here :) Spaceman;720651 Wrote: > This might be simple enough to work for you, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > "pinoniceusagi" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message > news:66caaf42ece3b7840112ba7241541c6d@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Thank you for answering! Yes, this works, but is this the way it is supposed to work? I thought Vista would automatically make a shortcut when I dragged a normal folder onto the Favorite Links menu? Signaturepinoniceusagi > Thank you for answering! > > Yes, this works, but is this the way it is supposed to work? I thought > Vista would automatically make a shortcut when I dragged a normal folder > onto the Favorite Links menu? I think Windows has almost always tried to move before copying a folder The basic default drag and drop is to move or copy the entire folder/file Glad it worked out for ya. :) >> Thank you for answering! >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Glad it worked out for ya. >:) The default right click action in Windows Explorer has always been to first assume you wanted to copy to whatever location you're dragging to. In older versions of Windows if you repeated the action enough times and "moved" as opposed to "copy" then after several attempts it wouldn't ask any more and just move the file. That feature seems lost in Vista. One more time for the clueless... So many things is Vista are broke, damaged, missing or altered from past versions it practically screams it was rushed out the door without regard to long established user preferences. >Spaceman;720651 Wrote: >> This might be simple enough to work for you, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Vista would automatically make a shortcut when I dragged a normal folder >onto the Favorite Links menu? Favorites aren't shortcuts, they're hyperlinks to web pages and behave differently getting labeled by Vista as Internet shortcuts. You can have shortcuts in folders, but not make the folders themselves shortcuts since they are containers and won't behave that way. You can "open" the folder to see it's content which may have shortcuts inside. There are a lot of strange things about how Windows file system navigates. The original designers must have been on drugs. > Favorites aren't shortcuts, they're hyperlinks to web pages and behave > differently getting labeled by Vista as Internet shortcuts. You can > have shortcuts in folders, but not make the folders themselves > shortcuts since they are containers and won't behave that way. You can > "open" the folder to see it's content which may have shortcuts inside. Actually, they are just 'shortcuts' placed in a special (internet shortcut) folder. And you can make folders into shortcuts on the desktop or any other folder. and yes, you can even place a shortcut to any folder in the favorites menu folder. >> Favorites aren't shortcuts, they're hyperlinks to web pages and behave >> differently getting labeled by Vista as Internet shortcuts. You can [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >and yes, you can even place a shortcut to any folder in the favorites menu >folder. Sure, but why would you want to? I have my Favorites divided into folders by categories thusly: Before making a shortcut to Music folder my Favorites looks like: Example: Favorites.... bunch of stuff (links) not yet sorted Music folder links Clip Art folder links Investing folder links and so on... If I make the Music folder a shortcut in the favorites folder, all that does it place the shortcut in the list. After making a shortcut to Music folder my Favorites now looks like: bunch of stuff (links) not yet sorted ===> new shortcut to Music folder Music folder links Clip Art folder links Investing folder links and so on... It add nothing of value ??? > >> Favorites aren't shortcuts, they're hyperlinks to web pages and behave > >> differently getting labeled by Vista as Internet shortcuts. You can [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > It add nothing of value I am not talking about making a copy of a shortcut that is already there. and yes, that would be a waste to make copies of folders that are already there. I am talking about any other folders that are not there already that you wish to access quickly from your favorites menu The folder lost it's desktop.ini file when it was deleted. The 'DefaultDropEffect' entry is the one that changes the drag & drop behavior. You can recreate it by pasting the following into notepad: ------------------------------------------ [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21810 IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-185 DefaultDropEffect=4 [LocalizedFileNames] Public.lnk=@shell32.dll,-21816 Searches.lnk=@shell32.dll,-9031 Recently Changed.lnk=@shell32.dll,-32813 Music.lnk=@shell32.dll,-21790 Pictures.lnk=@shell32.dll,-21779 Documents.lnk=@shell32.dll,-21770 ---------------------------------------------- Then save the file in the Links folder as 'desktop.ini'. For Explorer to process the information found in a folder's desktop.ini file, the folder's read-only attribute must be set. Open a command prompt window, ensure you are in 'C:\Users\<UserName>' and type the following command: attrib +r links SignatureGood Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] > Hello. I'm super-new at this forum, but after searching around, I found > posts from someone that had a very similar problem to mine, so I thought [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > good.If someone has any idea how to fix this problem (can it be done in > the registry, perhaps?), I would be very happy if you could post here :) Keith Miller \(MVP\);721396 Wrote: > The folder lost it's desktop.ini file when it was deleted. The > 'DefaultDropEffect' entry is the one that changes the drag & drop [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > "pinoniceusagi" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message > news:66caaf42ece3b7840112ba7241541c6d@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Hi Pinoniceusagi, In addition to Keith Miller's post, this tutorial can help make doing what he suggested easier to do. Just do the instructions for the "Links" folder. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90705-personal-user-shell-folders.html Hope this helps, Shawn SignatureBrink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.* |
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