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0002806MMW v4Main Panel/Toolbars/Menuspublic2007-09-26 19:44
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityimmediateSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Fixed in Version3.0 
Summary0002806: 'My Documents' folder isn't applicable to Vista
DescriptionMM 3.x supports 'My Documents' via both the 'My Computer' and 'Locations' node, however, Vista no longer uses this as the 'home' directory. Here's how the OSes work:

Win9x, XP: ...<User>/My Documets/My Music
Vista: C:/<User>/Music, C:/<User>/Documents, C:/<User>/Downloads

Thus for XP, the current approach makes sense, however, for Vista, the home directory should be C:/<User>/<favorite links>

A possible approach that would meet both OSes needs is to make the top level folder called 'Favorites', and include 'My Music' in XP and 'Music' in Vista, and allow the user to configure this as described in bug 0000628.
TagsNo tags attached.
Fixed in build1079

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related to 0000628 closedpetr Configurable Toolbar for Shortcuts (favorites) 

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jiri

2007-09-02 14:59

administrator   ~0010437

Fixed in build 1068.
 - My Music folder is used for both platforms which seems to resolve all the issues.

rusty

2007-09-03 12:08

administrator   ~0010455

Tested 1068. Generally working well, but I noticed that My music is still missing anywhere that we use a browse folders dialog:
-Browse button in Auto-organize dialog
-Browse button in Auto-convert
-Browse button in Basic tab of 'Properties'
-Browse button on Virtual CD config
-File Monitor

rusty

2007-09-03 12:16

administrator   ~0010456

btw, my only concern about this approach is that users may not know how to navigate to e.g. 'My Downloads'.

jiri

2007-09-03 12:25

administrator   ~0010457

Assigning to Petr to add 'My Music' folder to Browser dialog.

rusty

2007-09-18 16:10

administrator   ~0010816

This issue isn't consistently fixed.

e.g. if I go to the 'Locations' node, and click 'My Documents', it just includes the contents of 'My Music' but not the actual 'My Music' folder.

Moreover, as previously described, users typically do not know how to get to 'My Documents'.

From my perspective, the cleanest solution would be to:
On vista, have 'shortcuts' to both My Documents and My Music
On Win9x/XP, have 'shortcuts' to My Documents (as in the past)

petr

2007-09-19 10:08

developer   ~0010825

Done. Will be in 1076.

rusty

2007-09-20 16:56

administrator   ~0010839

Tested 1076 on XP, and it doesn't seem to work. i.e. I now see:

Location\My Documents\<Artists>

even though \My Documents\ doesn't actually have any Artist subdirectories!

I would have expected to see the following on XP:

Location\My Documents\My Music\<Artists>

petr

2007-09-21 01:29

developer   ~0010854

Fixed. Will be in 1077.

rusty

2007-09-23 12:11

administrator   ~0010889

Last edited: 2007-09-23 14:06

Tested 1078 and a few issues remain:
a) My Computer (on XP) is missing 'My Documents' (it has 'My Music' instead).
b) Add/rescan (on XP) is missing 'My Documents' (it has 'My Music instead) (same applies to other browse folder dialogs (e.g. auto-organize).

Also, when I tested in Vista, although it generally works, I realized that I didn't have access to some Folders that I wanted (e.g. My Downloads). This makes me wonder whether for Vista it would be better to simply show ...Users/<Current Username>. Not a huge issue, but might be an improvement.

petr

2007-09-24 00:17

developer   ~0010908

Fixed. Will be in 1079.

rusty

2007-09-26 19:44

administrator   ~0011012

Verified 1080.