File Shortcuts - Find File Location

With the changes we have made to shared drive mappings any desktop shortcuts you have created to files and folders on a departmental group drive will no longer work. If you are unsure of where the files or folder was located, you can do the following to help you find it:

• Navigate to the location of your shortcut (likely to be your desktop)

• Right click on the shortcut

• Select Properties

• In Target: you can see the previous file path, so you can tell whether it will now be on the G: (support) or T: (teaching) drive and also which area it was from (Humanities in the following example):

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• If you click in the Target: field and then scroll along to the right, you can see the file or folder path the shortcut was pointing to:

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