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Can My Documents be shared between Ubuntu and Vista?

Asked by Lawrence

I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a VAIO laptop, and used the automatic Ubuntu partitioner to partition the drive, giving Ubuntu 20gb space, my idea being to use Ubuntu and Vista together. During the installation I took the option of importing my account from Vista.

All the documents and music etc from Vista has been imported to Ubuntu, but I am unclear about something. I want to know if Ubuntu makes a separate copy of the documents from Vista or whether they are the same documents, shared by both operating systems.

For example, in Ubuntu I edited a word document that was created in Vista, and then booted into Vista to see if the changed has also been saved in Vista, and they hadn't.

This was what I was hoping for, so that changed I made or new documents created in Ubuntu would also be available in Vista.

Is this possible? And if so how?

P.S. From Ubuntu when I go in the My Documents folder where the Vista Documents should be, no documents are shown.

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Ahmed Toulan (thelinuxer) said : 		#1

You can edit the documents directly from the windwos partition. NTFS and FAT partition are both readable and writable by ubuntu. You should be able to access them without any trouble.

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Lawrence (makuyantana) said : 		#2

When I go to the Windows partition, and go into the documents and settings folder, the folder appears empty, so in effect I have not been able to access the documents on the Vista Partition from Ubuntu.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#3

I don't know if this will help you. I installed a program called Dolphin from Synaptic and can access the drive where I have XP installed. From Dolphin I can access all the files on XP.

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Mikechaos (mikechaos13) said : 		#4

An other solution is having a third partition, in ext3, for example, where you stock thigs you want to access from both Vista en Ubuntu. Then, on Vista, you install a program to be able to read ext3 partition and you're done.

Good luck.

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