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Ok, here's a stupid one. I need to have the My Music folder back. I've never bothered with these "My" folders, but when installing iTunes with AirTunes it asks for that particular folder. I created a folder in /documents/my login/My Documents/ but it never got the blessed special icon, and it is not recognized in iTunes.

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Get the tweakUI powertoy from the microsoft powertoys website. It lets you specifiy the location of "special folders", one of which is My Music.

I don't use the normal C:/Docu~1/user/My Docu~1/My music setup, preferring for X:/music/ , etc. Using tweakUI i set "my Music" to that folder so iTunes works properly.

Alright, you're going to have to go into the registry to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\

And add a new String Value named "My Music" with the path to your music folder as the data.

  pixels said:

Alright, you're going to have to go into the registry to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\

And add a new String Value named "My Music" with the path to your music folder as the data.

Weirdest thing, it turns out that there's already a My Music string in the registry that's empty, but if I fill in the path it still stays empty after rebooting!!

I noticed that the My Music (along with the rest of the "my..." folders) need to be System folders (adjust in attributes).

That combined with the proper path in that key will probably do it.

Also, make sure that the my music path is relative to the my documents path in c:\documents and settings\%username%\

start> run> cmd

at the prompt type the following... [enter] = hit enter key

cd\ [enter]

cd C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\ [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to see if there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music; if it is, then it is already a system folder. Try the TweakUI thing listed below... If there is no S listed continue here...

attrib +S My Music [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to make sure there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music

You can also "restore" the my music folder with Microsoft's own TweakUI (link listed on the right). I forget exactly where it is in TweakUI, but it's listed somewhere.

For more on attrib check out the ATTRIB page on ss64.com.

In the My music folder, create a text file with Notepad, type the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]

Owner= <------ insert your user name here

Personalized=13

PersonalizedName=My Music

[.ShellClassInfo]

InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12689

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

IconIndex=-237

save it in the my music folder as desktop.ini

If you have Windows Media Player installed, theres a setting which says "Monitor My Media Folders" or something very similar, if this option is selected, it should automatically recreate your My Music folder if you didnt delete it from the list of Monitored folders

  bigflavor said:

1.

start> run> cmd

at the prompt type the following... [enter] = hit enter key

cd\ [enter]

cd C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\ [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to see if there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music; if it is, then it is already a system folder. Try the TweakUI thing listed below... If there is no S listed continue here...

attrib +S My Music [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to make sure there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music

2.

You can also "restore" the my music folder with Microsoft's own TweakUI (link listed on the right). I forget exactly where it is in TweakUI, but it's listed somewhere.

1. Tried that but the attrib command don't lists my folders, just the files in them, so I can't get to the My Music attributes.

2. Weirdest thing! I neither had a My Videos folder, and when chosing Repair My Videos Icon, TweakUI creates a proper My Videos folder. When trying to do this on My Music folder, absolutely nothing happens!!

  JRosenfeld said:

In the My music folder, create a text file with Notepad, type the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]

Owner= <------ insert your user name here

Personalized=13

PersonalizedName=My Music

[.ShellClassInfo]

InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12689

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

IconIndex=-237

save it in the my music folder as desktop.ini

Did that, nothing happened at all.

  slim_Az said:

If you have Windows Media Player installed, theres a setting which says "Monitor My Media Folders" or something very similar, if this option is selected, it should automatically recreate your My Music folder if you didnt delete it from the list of Monitored folders

Checked, it was already on the list.

  • 1 year later...

I had the same problem - the "My Music" folder was lost after I changed drive letter on the partition where it was stored. The contents of it wasn't lost though, it just got transformed to an ordinary folder, which iTunes then didn't recognize.

At last found the solution at an iPod forum (!) - what you need to do in the registry is to also check the USER shell folders - that did the trick for me!! :D Also check the Apple forum for an alternative solution - weird to find the solution to a Windows issue in such places - nothing at all is to be found in the MS KB... :p

  • 2 years later...
  On 06/07/2006 at 13:44, brand said:

start> run> cmd

at the prompt type the following... [enter] = hit enter key

cd\ [enter]

cd C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\ [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to see if there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music; if it is, then it is already a system folder. Try the TweakUI thing listed below... If there is no S listed continue here...

attrib +S My Music [enter]

attrib [enter]

check to make sure there is an "S" listed to the right of C:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\my music

For the sake of completeness I will revive this ancient thread (because this is the first one that popped up on google). The above did the trick for me, but it needs a slight ajustment: you have to add the /S and /D options for it to work. For example you could type in one go:

attrib +S D:\"My Documents"\"My Music" /S /D

You can check the atributes if you ommit the +S statement, for more info type attrib /? in de command prompt, double quotation marks to handle the spaces in the folder path and be sure to type the correct path to your My Music folder :)

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