My Documents - A Music Folder

[Matthew]

In the last few days my main documents folder is reporting that it is a muisc folder if you get where I come from and I have the annoying little music thing in the corner, I have tired right click and customize but that does not work is there a way to clear folder cache as such?

Thanks

[Millay]

any chance of a screen dump? I can kinda imagine what your saying but seeing it would be great.

[nffc]

Try deleting the two hidden files- folders.ini and thumbs.db - from the My Docs folder, then altering the settings...
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It's actually desktop.ini- I just checked... ignore the folders.ini thing

[Matthew]

I have looked for hidden files in My Documents and there are none there so I did a search for desktop.ini and the 4 that turned up are in the following folders:
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\1033\DataServices
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN

What do I do now?

[Paul K]

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/specialicons.htm
might help reset your icons.

[Matthew]

Thanks for the link Paul but it did not work and I did check out some of the links also on the site.

[Paul K]

Are you sure your icon files aren't damaged?
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Actually have you tried using TweakUI to reset your icons again?
Or try here
http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread.php?t=25700

[Matthew]

What I mean is annoying me is the music symbol at the bottom of my documents and I cannot get rid of it.

See here for a shot of my folder (with all documents erased out using paint)

[Paul K]

Why not just change the folder type to a standard folder then? Having it set as a music folder means it uses the template for that folder.
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According to MS you cannot customise the My Docs, Music or Pictures folder. Have you told XP to use a different folder type/ view as default at all or used a skinning software to change anything?

[Matthew]

You can't, already tried that.
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Just got your second reply, tried other views.

All I need is something to clear folder cache as such.

[Paul K]

Look here at the bit about the templates for special folders being wrong. It's your task pane/ template which is incorrect for that folder.
TweakUI can clear most cache problems, have you looked into using it at all?

[Matthew]

I will take a look now and let you know the outcome.
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Just tried it and it didn't work.

[Paul K]

System restore to before the issue arose? Or is that turned off?
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From http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm

Question: One of my special folders (e.g. My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Shared Documents, etc) has lost
its name, lost its icon, or has the wrong Task Pane template, how can I get it back?

Answer: This problem can occur if the hidden desktop.ini file in the special folder is corrupt or missing. Here are the
steps to fix this problem:

Open the special folder, then in the address bar type \desktop.ini at the end of the path and press enter. This will open Notepad.

If, instead of opening Notepad, you get a message saying Windows cannot find the file right click in the folder and select properties, then go to the Customize tab and click Change Icon then click OK and click OK again. This will create a desktop.ini with the correct Hidden and System attributes. Now you can repeat the first step.


1. In Notepad change the text of the file to the correct text specified below (My Documents, My Music,
My Pictures, My Videos, Favorites, Shared Documents, Shared Music, Shared Pictures, Shared Videos).
Then save the file and exit Notepad.
2. Log Off all the way and then Log In.

Note: When the text of one of these files contains Douglas Thrift replace it with your own user name.

[Roy MM]

Tools>view>properties>file type

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by Roy MM

Tools>view>properties>file type

Can't change the file type of the main "My Documents" or "special" folders, only the folders within them. Already looked lol