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I've recently exported my favorites (hundreds of them!) from chrome on XP and imported them to chrome on Win7. Many of my favorites point to various documents on my local hard drive. On XP this would be C:\Documents and Settings\MyName1\... BUT on Win7 it's C:\Users\MyName2\... so none of the favorites, pointing at the local drive, worked!
If MyName1 is identical to MyName2 then this issue will not exist! This is because there is already a directory junction point linking C:\Documents and Settings WITH C:\Users.
The required directory structure and its contents would have to be copied from (XP) ...\MyName1 to (Win7) ...\MyName2.
N.B. Always create a restore point prior to any system changes.
Open cmd.exe as administrator (Click start - type cmd - hold Shift and Ctrl then hit return - confirm administrator access) and type the following, substituting MyName1 and MyName2 with the actual names in use:
mklink /j "c:\documents and settings\MyName1" c:\users\MyName2
Now your favorites will work.
Only read on if you're interested in how it works.
mklink.exe is an executable file which creates symbolic links or junction points which are basically pointers or short-cuts.
Typing mklink /? will display all its switches.
the /j switch creates a junction point.
the quotes (" ") are required to encapsulate a string containing spaces e.g. "documents and settings" - in this case.
So, when your favorite tries to access c:\documents and settings\MyName1\My Documents\...\A Publication
the system will first look at the suggested path then it will substitute c:\documents and settings\MyName1 WITH c:\users\MyName2.
Purist will argue that these are not symbolic links and they would be correct! However, they give similar results.
Finding this command has saved me from recreating all my favorites which would have taken hours.
If MyName1 is identical to MyName2 then this issue will not exist! This is because there is already a directory junction point linking C:\Documents and Settings WITH C:\Users.
The required directory structure and its contents would have to be copied from (XP) ...\MyName1 to (Win7) ...\MyName2.
N.B. Always create a restore point prior to any system changes.
Open cmd.exe as administrator (Click start - type cmd - hold Shift and Ctrl then hit return - confirm administrator access) and type the following, substituting MyName1 and MyName2 with the actual names in use:
mklink /j "c:\documents and settings\MyName1" c:\users\MyName2
Now your favorites will work.
Only read on if you're interested in how it works.
mklink.exe is an executable file which creates symbolic links or junction points which are basically pointers or short-cuts.
Typing mklink /? will display all its switches.
the /j switch creates a junction point.
the quotes (" ") are required to encapsulate a string containing spaces e.g. "documents and settings" - in this case.
So, when your favorite tries to access c:\documents and settings\MyName1\My Documents\...\A Publication
the system will first look at the suggested path then it will substitute c:\documents and settings\MyName1 WITH c:\users\MyName2.
Purist will argue that these are not symbolic links and they would be correct! However, they give similar results.
Finding this command has saved me from recreating all my favorites which would have taken hours.
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