Restore Default Location of Game DVR Captures Folder in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Hello Elerd, and welcome to Ten Forums

Is the Videos folder still at the default location, or was it moved?

Did option 2 create a Captures folder for you? If so, are you able to use option 1 to point to this Captures folder?

No i mistakenly moved the videos folder in attempt to solve the problem. Option 2 did not create a captures folder.

I know this is a little old but I may have a helpful suggestion for those of us using a domain with folder redirection turned on. My capture folder was listed in /local/temp like other users and the batch file wouldn't work because the video folder isn't simply in %%USERPROFILE%% anymore. I had to replace the address with the full server location of the redirected folder.

So I edited your batch file to look like the below and that worked perfectly for me. Thank you so much for the code.

Code:

@echo off 

:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: Created on: September 7, 2020
:: Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/87525-restore-default-location-game-dvr-captures-folder-windows-10-a.html


taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

timeout /t 2 /nobreak >nul

if not exist "\\HOMESERVER2016\Folder Redirection\workstation\Videos\Captures" mkdir "\\HOMESERVER2016\Folder Redirection\workstation\Videos\Captures"

reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{EDC0FE71-98D8-4F4A-B920-C8DC133CB165}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "\\HOMESERVER2016\Folder Redirection\workstation\Videos\Captures" /f

attrib +r -s -h "\\HOMESERVER2016\Folder Redirection\workstation\Videos\Captures" /S /D

timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul

start explorer.exe

Brink said:

Hello @JakeReindl,

I have added option 2 to the tutorial that will hopefully fix this for you.

Hi Shawn, I had exactly the same issue as Jake. I must have accidentally deleted the captures folder at some point. Option Two in your tutorial worked beautifully! Thanks so much!! *sends a large virtual cake*

Hi, Will this still work in Windows 11?