Moving directories (music, videos, pictures) etc.


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StewartA13WSB

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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 ;)
 

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StewartA13WSB said:
As simply as possible can somebody please tell me how to move this folder...
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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!!)
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Yeah, I lost many files too, because of the way onedrive works, so I keep documents separate.
 

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Glad I could help
 

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    Windows 11 Pro 64 bit 24H2
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    PC/Desktop
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    Gigabyte Z390 UD
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    Intel Core i7 77000 3.60
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    Gigabyte Z390 UD
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    16 GB
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    nVidia GEForce RTX 2060 Super
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    Two 27" Dell 4K monitors
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