In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
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Big Al on Sun, 13 Jan 2019 07:14:15 -0500 typed
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My latest "What were they thinking? Were they thinking?" is the
magic folders/link/shortcut. As in "it says 'My Music' but it is
really "\D". And by \D I mean that if you search F:\Bakups it will
find the directory RawFIles. On Drive D. Which is kind of cool,
until you want to remove said 'link', only if you delete "My Music",
you are asked if you mean to delete all 385 gigs in the directory. No,
I just want to delete the link, but this being Windows, you can't do
dat.

If I understand you correctly. I think you're confusing the *Library*
'My Music' with the *folder*(s) it is pointing to.

If you go to 'Desktop' in File Explorer, you will see a 'thing' called
'Libraries'. 'Libraries; contains your list of libraries, which probably
includes '[My] Documents', '[My] Music', '[My] Pictures' and '[My]
Videos'.

Right-click on the *library* '[My] Music' and select Properties. There
you will see that you *can* 'Add...' and 'Remove' the *folders* - called
'Library locationss' - to which the *library* '[My] Music' is pointing.

If I look at the "Properties" of my Documents library (or any of the
other three) I can see "Remove", but not "Add". Is this one of the
differences between Home (which is what I have) and Pro?

Argge.

Elementary, dear Watson, just relax! :-)

So yes, you *can* delete the 'link' (read: library) 'My Music', but if
you do not want to delete the folders it's pointing to, you first have
to 'Remove' those folders from the list of 'Library locations:' in the
Properties of the 'My Music' library.

So can I "Remove" _all_ the entries in (say) the "Documents" Library,
then remove the library itself, without actually any files being removed
from my discs? Or will it not let me delete the last one?

I see
[/] My Documents (C:\Users\username)
Public Documents (C:\Users\Public)
(where [/] is a tick in a box). Where I keep my actual documents is
D:\document.s . Is there anything to be lost by getting rid of the four
libraries (other than the possible loss of the ability to use libraries,
which I can't see ever doing)?

N.B. I wrote '[My] Music', etc., because AFAIK the name on Windows 7 is
still 'My Music', while on Windows 8.1 (which I have), it's just 'Music'.

FWIW, on my 7-32 Home, I have no "My"s, just the four words.

HTH.

P.S. You can also *add* libraries. For example I have one called NetNews
which points to my local NetNews/Usenet 'cache'.
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