Submission details
Windows Live Messenger "My Received Files" folder always stores in C:\Users... even if your user directory is on another drive
Messenger always stores received files in "C:\Users\<user>\Documents\My Received Files" even if you've switched your user directory to another drive (e.g. should be "D:\Users\<user>\Documents\My Received Files")
Make it save to your user directory, whatever drive that's on.
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Discussion (4 comments)
That would also make sense :)
My big complaint is that if I hit the link to my user directory from the start menu there are two folders called documents - one on my D drive that I moved from from C (the proper way) and one on my C drive that solely contains my received files.
I would suggest the ideal location for Messenger downloads would be something like:
\Users\<user>\Downloads\Messenger
Also, it would be good if this setting could be set in the registry using a string value, so that it could be easily scripted.
> reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger" /v FtReceiveFolder /d "%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\Messenger" /f
aldo wrote on September 2, 2009, 3:56am
To me, it would be nicer if it went into the Downloads directory, but this'll do too.