Moving directories (music, videos, pictures) etc.

StewartA13WSB · Sep 26, 2022

After months of pain I have deleted/uninstalled OneDrive from my laptop & mobile. Unfortunately my Documents folder seems to be linked to it and nothing I've tried lets me change it.
My C drive partition is filling with windows 11 and I have manged to move Music, Videos and Pictures to the D partition, but not Documents - it comes up as still being linked to one drive although it's uninstalled!.
(As an aside I have lost the documents I had saved in there too!!)

As simply as possible can somebody please tell me how to move this folder... go slowly though, 70 year old newbie :wink:

Spunk · Sep 26, 2022

To view the files that were backed up to OneDrive/Documents login online and copy the files to your Documents folder on your C: drive Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

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TairikuOkami · Sep 26, 2022

StewartA13WSB said:
As simply as possible can somebody please tell me how to move this folder...

Run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

Code:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal" /t REG_SZ /d "D:\Documents" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\Documents" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "Personal" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\Documents" /f
takeown /s %computername% /u %username% /f "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" /r /d y
icacls "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" /inheritance:r /grant:r %username%:(OI)(CI)F /t /l /q /c
xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" "D:\Documents" /s /i /y
rd "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" /s /q
mklink /d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" "D:\Documents"
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f & explorer.exe

StewartA13WSB said:
(As an aside I have lost the documents I had saved in there too!!)

Yeah, I lost many files too, because of the way onedrive works, so I keep documents separate.

StewartA13WSB · Sep 26, 2022

Spunk said:
To view the files that were backed up to OneDrive/Documents login online and copy the files to your Documents folder on your C: drive Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

Turn off OneDrive folder Backup Turn On or Off OneDrive Folder Backup Syncing Across Windows 11 Devices Tutorial

My screen doesn't look quite the same?
Is that because I have uninstalled OneDrive already?