How do I point to same folder in a Dual-boot system???

[fretman]

Can I point to the same ?Documents? folder in a dual-boot system?

I have Vista and XP on my machine. I went into Vista and changed the target location for the ?Documents? folder to point to another folder in a different location. When this happened, the other folder was automatically renamed to ?Documents?.

I booted into XP and I wanted to change the ?My Documents? folder to point as well to this other folder.

However, XP just created a new folder called My Documents in that location.

Basically what I want to do is to be able to click on ?My Documents? in XP and click on ?Documents? in Vista and have the same folder open where all my files are stored.

Is this possible? And if yes, would you be able to tell me how it?s done and why the method I?m using is not working?

As well, if this works I might do this for some of my other folders too.

Thanks for the help.

 

[degibson]

Try making the folder reside on its own partition. Have both XP and Vista mount the partition as Z: or Y: or something, then point the docs folder to Z:\Documents ... seems to me like that should work.

 

[fretman]

Originally posted by: degibson
Try making the folder reside on its own partition. Have both XP and Vista mount the partition as Z: or Y: or something, then point the docs folder to Z:\Documents ... seems to me like that should work.

Yes, that is exactly how I'm set up now. My other folder where all my files are stored is on my E: and Vista and XP are on C: and D: depending on which OS I'm booting from. It all seems like common sense to just change the target directory but obviously I'm missing something there.

Thanks for the feedback.