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More info?)
Or, if you're only after one user's profile, you could log into a different
user, which might be a more useful solution for more people. Just about
everyone has a extra profile, or could easily create one, but not everyone
has an extra bootable OS.
Glad you got it worked out.
"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> And Rick led me to the useful workaround: I reboot
> to the OS on my Slave drive.....while there, the OS and
> therefore the Doc&Settings on my Master Drive are not
> in use. So I am able to Copy the entire folder out of
> Doc&Settings onto a CD. Now I have the full mail backup
> on CD. I did it. It works. Thank you again, Rick.
>
>
>> Rick made it clear. I can't pick and choose from the
>> contents. And the folder is "in use" so I can't
>> copy it anywhere. I have to find some kind of workaround.
>> Thanks for trying, folks.
>>
>> D.Currie wrote:
>>
>>> You con copy the files WITHIN the documents & setting folder, but not
>>> the folder itself, according to what Rick said. I don't know -- I don't
>>> copy folder the way you say you're doing it. But the inability to copy
>>> the folder shouldn't be that much of a hardship anyway, since what you
>>> want are the contents anyway..
>>>
>>> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
>>> news:%23yZgcxtvEHA.3228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>> Min, I think Rick's answer is unequivocal. You and I have both
>>>> copied folders....but he says NOT from the place I need to!!
>>>>
>>>> W B L
>>>>
>>>> MiniMe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have copied several folders to cd, I create a short cut on the desk
>>>>> top and then send it to my cd writer works every time for me.
>>>>> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>>>> news:eE8hnGrvEHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi William,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically, you can't as that folder will always be "in use" whenever
>>>>>> the system is running. You can copy elements within the folder that
>>>>>> are not currently in use, but not the entire folder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best of Luck,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>>>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>>>>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>>>>>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>>>>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:eb4VIiqvEHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have been trying to copy and paste a folder to CD.
>>>>>>> The folder is under C:\Documents & Settings, and
>>>>>>> every way that I've tried so far, it tells me that
>>>>>>> it's in use. I tried doing it in Safe Mode with the
>>>>>>> same results. Can you suggest a work-around? Thanks.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> William B. Lurie
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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> William B. Lurie