[X Newbies] Documents folder shows different items

[Gretchen Hayman]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 22:15 US/Central, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
> Why is it my Document folder contains different items when looked
> at from Home and from Computer? When I click on Home and open it,
> it has 7 items. When I click on Computer, then Documents, it has
> 32 items (and includes the 7 items on the former list).
>
> P.S.: Under Favorites, 7 items.

Hi Anne,

Do you have Column View on, so that you can see that the Documents 
folder you're seeing each time is indeed the same one?   Do you have OS 
9 installed on the same partition as OS X?  The only reason I ask is 
that I don't see a Documents folder when I click on the Computer icon 
in a Finder window.  But I have my OS 9 installed on a separate 
partition on this machine and on most of my other machines I don't have 
OS 9 installed at all.

I'd turn on Column View (if you don't have it on), then click on each 
icon (home and computer) and verify that you really are seeing the same 
folder.  I think the Computer/Documents is not the same as the 
Home/Documents or Favorite/Documents folder. If the folder is indeed 
the same one, then something strange is going on.

Gretchen