Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

TankHunta said:

Thank you for this awesome method
However, after I did it I noticed that all my pinned stuff in the task bar have been disappeared (not a problem just wanted to mention it) ,but now onedrive is not working and I no longer see the usual sync icon on synced files and folders, any solution?
Also can you inform me of other things (if any) that could be broken/stopped working after the relocation?
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Technically, nothing should be broken, but it sounds like you used the method for an already in place system, instead of a clean install?

Hey, kblackw, and welcome to the forums.

I read your first post about your setup, and I will say this about your choice: Moving the \Users tree to a mechanical drive from the SSD will probably cause (unnoticeable) slowdown, because one of the main Temp folders, %temp% as referred to in the OS, is actually in your local folder in your user account folder - \Users\{youraccount}\Local\Temp - and when programs are running and need to use temp space space for whatever reason, they will be using the much slower mechanical HD for it rather than the much faster SSD. However, when I had a single SSD setup (Windows 7, but the methodology from this tutorial is very near the same), I, too, did the same as you - not for speed, so much so as to have an easy method to be able to restore settings, particularly browser and other program profiles, without fooling with the drive that the OS was installed on.

OK, so in reading your first post, my first question is: Did you perform a clean install when using the tutorial, or did you take your existing nearly clean profile and use the method 2 - move existing profile?

Second, in researching the error message, it seems that Outlook has a particularly bad history with IMAP accounts, and in particular, in trying to to synchronize (main) folders that have sub-folders in them.

Second, I'm assuming that you haven't changed anything in Outlook and these errors only started after you moved the \Users tree? Is this a clean install (wrt Outlook) or was Outlook already installed when you performed the \Users tree move?

In the meantime, I performed a Google search on the error message, and here is what I found as possible solutions:

What is Error 8004DF03-0-0-560 - Microsoft Community

Show all comments, then see the one from ADRIANIBANEZ - see if that helps.

Outlook Error 8004DF03-0-0-560 | Tiger Technologies Support

This explains the issue at hand, which in your case looks to be your INBOX folder. Their answer is to manually create the subfolders - but, if you're like me, you have hundreds of subfolders under INBOX, and that is not very practical....

Finally, there is [SOLVED] Outlook 2013 IMAP folders not populating - Spiceworks

the fix here is a bit different than the other two, but may actually end up working for you - the response by albertpaul.

If none of these work, please reply with the exact methodology you used when you first did this, and we'll go from there.

BTW, I'm sure Kari may have some ideas as well, so if you prefer to wait for him to reply, no worries.

No problem - let us know how it goes.

@Kari - in the main tutorial page, the link for method one at the beginning doesn't actually go anywhere, whereas links for 2 and Upgrade go directly to the relevant sections.

I believe this is because the original tutorial didn't have the interspersed Video tutorial right after the ToC, so there probably was really no need to have it linking to the section heading that was literally right underneath.

Just thought I'd mention it in case you do want it linking directly....