I want to redirect the My Music Folder on a Windows XP or 2000 Pro system to a share on a network server. I’m not sure how to do this.
I know how to redirect My Documents and everything in it to a network share but I just want to redicred My Music, and have that share accesable by everyone on my network.
You’re throwing me off with “redirect”. Are you saying that you want to move the folder and then share it? Or do you just want to share it without moving it?
\Documents and Settings\someuserprofile\My Documents\My Music
Which limits what music can be played by what machine my parents are using I would rather have all music on \server1\sharedmusic\ and have that appear as the My Music folder
Could you just make a shortcut on each desktop to the proper folder on the network drive so when anyone goes to access it it will go to \server\sharedmusic rather than specifying to \user\docs\music
Run the program TweakUI from Microsoft. Choose the option My Computer->Special Folders. Select My Music in the pull-down box. Press the Change Location button. You will probably need to map a drive first, because the tree control does not have a edit box to type “\server\share…”.
Versions of TweakUI exist for every version of Windows. Here is the XP version.
If for some reason you can’t map a drive we should be able to figure out the registry location using TweakUI and RegMon.
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[li]Open up Windows Explorer (this doesn’t work if you navigate via the desktop).[/li][li]Right click on the “My Documents” folder.[/li][li]Press the “Move” button, choose the place on your home network you want the files to go to, ensure the same path is in the target folder location, and press “OK”.[/li][/ol]
Ok I used Tweak UI for Non Itanium Systems and set the location of My Music to be \Srv2\Music and I tried setting the location of Shared Music to \Srv2\Music but it keeps resetting it to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music
When I log off then log back on and go to My Documents from the desktop and click on My Music it opens up C:\Documents and Settings\Emanuel Levy.LEVY.000\My Documents\My Music
As a sanity check, try setting your My Music to a local folder (e.g. temp), then log off and on. That will eliminate the network share from the picture. If that works, you can try mapping a drive instead of the \server\share link.
The problem with a shortcut is my Father will still try go to to My Documents then My Music to pick the music he wants to listen to because that is how he was taught in a class he went to. I tried making a shortcut on his desktop called Music and told him to click there but he still insits on doing it the way he was taught in the class he took at the local college.
Don’t you wonder what the hell the Microsoft developers were thinking sometimes? I’m anxiously awaiting an answer to this one cause it’s a problem I’ve always had too.
Yep I’l love to know what they were thinking. I have one application that is hardcoded to my documents\mymusic that turns streaming audio into MP3’s This is a legal use but one of the reasons I need my music to be on a network connection