Windows 10 Woops, Folders Issue with "This PC" pane

[PaulyD0051]

I was trying to move my Music, Videos and Pictures folders to the D: drive instead of keeping it on the C: (SSD) drive.

Unfortunately when doing so I created this monstrosity and I can not seem to undo this mess:

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How do I fix said issue to remove those D:/ links and actually move my Music, Videos and Pictures folders to the D: drive.

 

[Neemobeer]

How did you add them there, did you use a tweak tool?

You'll need to remove the key with the corresponding CLSID from here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace in the registry

Then simply move the directories you want to some location on D:\
Then create a directory junction from an elevated command prompt

Example for videos directory
mklink /J "C:\Users\<username>\Videos" "D:\Somedirectory\Videos"

This way Windows will still see it as it should be C:\Users\<username>\Videos but the data will be on the D drive

 

[PaulyD0051]

How did you add them there, did you use a tweak tool?

You'll need to remove the key with the corresponding CLSID from here
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace in the registry

Then simply move the directories you want to some location on D:\
Then create a directory junction from an elevated command prompt

Example for videos directory
mklink /J "C:\Users\<username>\Videos" "D:\Somedirectory\Videos"

This way Windows will still see it as it should be C:\Users\<username>\Videos but the data will be on the D drive

No, no tweak tool, I just used Windows "properties" and the "move" function and thought that would work.

 

[bochane]

There where you found the 'move' function is also a restore to default function

 

[PaulyD0051]

There where you found the 'move' function is also a restore to default function

Yes, I tried that, didn't seem to work. I will try again though, because I didn't read the message pop-up following that.

 

[PaulyD0051]

This is what happens when I try to "Restore".

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[PaulyD0051]

Ahhhh... but I see how I can change that. Working on it now.

 

[PaulyD0051]

No, I still get access denied even with all permissions turned on.

 

[PaulyD0051]

Ok... so I got it to move but now I created a new problem

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This has been most unsuccessful.

 

[bochane]

Perhaps making a new user profile:
- Make a new user account, log in there and copy any thing of value over.
- If, after some time, you are really sure that everything is over and working you can remove that old crippled account and re-enter it.

 

[Neemobeer]

This is what I was referring to with mklink

 

[bochane]

This is what I was referring to with mklink...

Sorry, did not recognize that...