----- Original Message ----- From: "betty" <ashleybvm@netptc.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery > C:\Documents and Settings\Betty Ashley\My Documents\surname.paf (several different surnames) But NO Smith file comes up. By the way I don't like this long, long path but because I don't know what I am doing, that is how my computer did it. This long path is the default because you are using a computer with a multi-user Operating System like Windows XP. Even though you could have multiple users in W95, W98, or ME, most people only had one. With W2K or XP, there is automatically an Administrator account and generally at least one other user. The computer uses those paths to prevent co-mingling your saved files. If you logged on as Administrator, the default save path would be to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\, which is a *different* My Documents folder than yours. Microsoft thought that by giving every user their own My documents folder and having the computer default to saving all their "stuff" there, it would be simpler. > > So I did a search and up comes the following along with all the other long surname paths: > > Simply C:\Betty.paf !!!! How did this happen? I clicked on it, and there was my Smith file! How did it get in my root directory? Of course it does not come up with the others with the PAF shortcut ... As far as I know, it used to be available when I clicked the PAF shortcut. The computer didn't move the file of its own volition. My guess is that is where it was saved to previously, for reasons now buried in obscurity. Then, everything you have done since was saved in the Windows default path. Also, since you hadn't worked on that one for a while, it dropped off the recent file list. If you close PAF with a file open, it re-opens with the same file. However, under the file menu will be a list of the 4 most recently accessed files. Gary Templeman