Documents Location Changed But Property Location Is Correct - ???

Gla4g said:

Greetings! I tried to search for posts on my issue but all that comes up is advice on how to move your Documents folder. I already did that. I changed my location from my SSD C:\ drive to my data drive E:\. Everything seemed fine until today when I navigated to the E: drive with Windows Explorer. My documents and music folders somehow got moved to a "Videos" folder. The "Gary" folder appears to be gone. However, the Documents shortcuts still work. In fact, the location property for Documents shows the correct (old) path but when I click on Find Target, it takes me to the Videos folder. I'm not sure when this happened. I have a system image but I'm afraid it was created after the fact. (Yes, I have rebooted)

You can press the Restore default button (changes it back to C:\Users\Gary\Documents) and then perform the move again to the location of your choice. Answer yes to move files if prompted.

The user folders and libraries are two different things.

Resetting Libraries just removes all of the referenced folders in the Libraries or re-creates the standard ones if they were deleted and makes them visible on the navigation pane (i think it makes them visible)

In both of the Property screen shots, I see your Documents folder in E:\Gary .

On the View menu ribbon
tick show hidden files

Can you see Gary now?

Try the blue File menu
Folder options
View tab
show protected files ... yes I want to show them

Can you see Gary now?



I'll get back to the other things later.

Did you perchance use Settings to move the location of your folders?

Gla4g said:

BTW Slartybart, thanks for helping. I may have been wrong about the default save locations. Either that or I somehow reset them. Is there somewhere else in Setting where they can be changed?

The save location in Settings looks ok. I asked because there are Gary and Sharlene folders on E: and that made me think you used Settings > Save locations.

Is this what you want

E:\Gary\Documents
E:\Gary\Music
E:\Gary\Pictures
E:\Gary\Videos

Navigate to C:\Users\Gary
post a screen shot of the folders

Right click Documents (if there)
press the location tab
Post a screen shot

If any of the user folders are there, please post a screen shot of the location tab

Also, launch a Command Prompt
cd e:\
attrib Gary

dir /a
dir /a /s Gary > %TEMP%\listUser.txt

Post a screen shot of the Command Prompt window
also attach %TEMP%\listUser.txt

See: Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Ten Forums - Windows 10 Forums

On the upload file dialog, you can put %TEMP%\listUser.txt in the file field or [ Browse ] to %TEMP% and select listUser.txt

Ok, Muisic and Pictures are in C:\Users\Gary - leave them be for now until the hidden Gary folder is resolved.

You told me Videos is on E:\ and the image in post 3 confirms that it is what seems to be the special User folder Videos (icon).
But there is also a regular folder in C:\Users\Gary\Videos. Leave this alone for now too.

You mentioned: The Videos folder shows E:\ and that's where it appears in File Explorer and is in fact the folder in which Documents now appears.

Please post a screenshot of the location tab on E:\Videos\Documents
Also let me see a top level list of E:\Videos, I don't need a full sub level list
Cmd
e:
cd Videos
dir /a

E:\Gary only has a read-only attribute - that wouldn't hide it in explorer.

I took a quick look at the listing for E:\Gary and Documents does show up.

It's after 2 am here. I'll look deeper tomorrow.

Thanks for all of the screenshots and list output.