User's Documents Folder not visible in My Computer

I am the administrator user of my PC, Windows XP Pro, SP3.

I have user accounts set up for family members, all limited.

Recently while helping one of my son's to scan photographs ( We had to use
my account to do the scan, as the scanner is fairly old and there are no
updated drivers for it. Consequently, it only works in my account). We were
having problems working with the photos when we copied them to "His Documents
| His Pictures" folders. We eventually worked around the problem by resaving
them as JPG files insted of Tiff.

During this exercise, I noticed that when I double click My Computer on my
desktop, His Documents are not listed under "Files Stored On This Computer".
All other users are listed. The folder also does not appear in Windows
Explorer after Shared Documents and then the list of the other users of the
PC.

His Documents folder DOES show under "C:\Documents and Settings\His Name"

I have right clicked both his and another users documents folders and
compared properties, (General / Sharing / Security) and all seem to be the
same.

I am unsure if the fact His Documents are invisible as described above was a
factor in the problems we had working on the photos, but I would like to try
and sort this out.

Richard A. King wrote:

> I am the administrator user of my PC, Windows XP Pro, SP3.
>
> I have user accounts set up for family members, all limited.
>
> Recently while helping one of my son's to scan photographs ( We had to use
> my account to do the scan, as the scanner is fairly old and there are no
> updated drivers for it. Consequently, it only works in my account). We
> were having problems working with the photos when we copied them to "His
> Documents
> | His Pictures" folders. We eventually worked around the problem by
> | resaving
> them as JPG files insted of Tiff.
>
> During this exercise, I noticed that when I double click My Computer on my
> desktop, His Documents are not listed under "Files Stored On This
> Computer". All other users are listed. The folder also does not appear in
> Windows Explorer after Shared Documents and then the list of the other
> users of the PC.
>
> His Documents folder DOES show under "C:\Documents and Settings\His Name"
>
> I have right clicked both his and another users documents folders and
> compared properties, (General / Sharing / Security) and all seem to be the
> same.
>
> I am unsure if the fact His Documents are invisible as described above was
> a factor in the problems we had working on the photos, but I would like to
> try and sort this out.

He probably made his files private and this is nothing to be concerned
about. You were probably having difficulties because your scanner program
will only work in an administrative account. This is common for older
software/hardware drivers.

In the future, if you don't want to replace the scanner with a new one that
doesn't need to run under administrative accounts, just put the scanned
items in Shared Documents. Your son can then access the files when he's
logged into his account.

Malke