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1. Re: Specifying destination and folder strudture when restoring
MichelBParis Dec 2, 2014 12:12 AM (in response to Bobh123us)Bobh123us a écrit:
Adobe could make migration from one computer to another much easier.
As a matter of fact, that's Microsoft who are the culprits.
To keep things short, Microsoft thought long ago that it was a good idea to show the folder tree with shortcuts for 'documents' and 'images' instead of showing the full path in 'documents and settings'. For most users that's good because the folder tree looks simpler. Some users are puzzled because they can see both ways of showing the folder tree, with or without shortcuts. And they think everything is duplicated...
At that point, Adobe followed the shortcut idea and put the default location for the photo library in the 'My images' default folder.
Then Microsoft changed the default images structure...
That explains you can't get back to the old structure after a restore to the new system.
Being an old user since the beginning of the DOS operating system, I have never followed the suggested 'My images' suggestion and I have always created my own master folder with adequate permissions.
Note that the result of the restore is often to create intermediate subfolders with nothing in them. If you have a structure like C:\A\B\C\D and if there is nothing in B and C, you can move the D folder directly under A with all the subfolders of D. Use the drag and drop method in the 'Folders' panel.

