Change Windows 7 - the name of the Documents folder

In a new installation of Windows 7, I moved the documents located under 'Users' to the C: root and renamed the directory my documents.  Everything seems to work perfectly, with the exception of my backup script.  Studying this further, I found an interesting phenomenon:

Apparently, the system sees in the folder "C:\MyDocs" 'C:\Documents', even if Explorer shows as "C:\MyDocs.

And, of course, my backup script to not find the directory of the ti.

My concerns are twofold:

Why does Explorer displays the name of the directory the same way, I named ("C:\MyDocs"), and why the system sees it as ("C:\Documents")?

And, more importantly, how to make the system recognizes the correct name? ("C:\MyDocs")

If you have moved/renamed in the Explorer, which was the wrong method.

The default location is only a pointer to the physical location

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-Windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-drive.htm

While I can see a logic to another partition of libraries I don't know that I see no logic in the movement of the root of the drive

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