don't go there!)Īnyway, this is a ' feature' allows us to DISPLAY the name of the ' Documents' folder as anything we want, in any language we want, without actually changing the name of the ' Documents'ĭirectory in the file system itself. (The connection is made through some hidden Desktop.ini file that points to a system file named Shell32.dll.
We think the problem is related to this: we saw in one of our Windows 7 books that ' My Documents' is just a localized 'display' name for the ACTUAL file system nameįor that directory, which is just ' Documents'. Still got the merge message that said our two different folders had the same name. We tried renaming the old folder (with the date appended) to something completely different, but it didn't make any difference - we We are copying the 'My Pictures' folder from our c: drive to an external disc drive, where we then rename it with the date appended.īut when we tried to copy it again a month later, we got the erroneous merge dialog box, just like everyone else. We have just experienced a similar problem for the first time and think we can at least partially explain it.