How to relink user folders in Windows 7
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The short story:
 Win7 lost track of my user folders location (desktop, my documents, my pictures etc...). They now reside on a different partition. How can I relink these folders?
The long story:
The way I partition my drives is:
- C: - SSD drive for Windows and Program Files
- D: - A large regular hard drive for all my user data
The first thing I do after a fresh Win7 install is move my user folders to D:, by right clicking on these folders under C:\users\username\, choosing the Location tab and clicking on Move.
I've just completed encryption of D: using TrueCrypt. It shows a lot of warnings before the encryption process, but (hrrmm...) it does not mention the fact that after encryption the data is located on a new drive letter, say E:
This broke Win7's links to my special user folders. How can I relink these folders?
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