Resetting location for documents & others

Eliot,

Please explain what the problem is.
- What you do
- What response you get
How to Move Your Documents Folder Location - TenForumsTutorials and see its list of Related tutorials at the end for other relocation guides

Screenshots might help.
How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files - TenForumsTutorials


Denis

If you have protected folders in Defender enabled, it might be preventing it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/113380-how-enable-disable-controlled-folder-access-windows-10-a.html#option1

You might also need to take ownership/permissions of documents folder.

Moving Documents to D, it removes documents folder, so make sure to back it up!

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"

Note carefully the risks involved in doing so.

The tutorial cited by Try3 warns (by my request) users to create a disk image before attempting this.

It is possible to make horrible mistakes if you get the destination wrong.

I find a better option to be to create my own 'My Documents', 'My Downloads' etc on a separate disk or partition, then what goes in there is exclusively what I put there- not what some program puts there, as is the case with a number of office type and multimedia programs.

These folders can then, should the user wish, be added to a library in the way the default ones are part of a library.