Feature Updates Failing With Users Folder on Drive Other Than C:

Hi, suggest you ask under that tutorial
Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10
as to the impact of that change on feature updates.

There seems nothing in the text of the tutorial to suggest there would be a conflict, but absence of information is not proof.

This (by Kari) states it is 'completely safe'
https://win10.guru/relocating-users-...t-is-100-safe/

Even some globally known IT writers have posted articles about how the relocation should not be done because it, according to them, makes updates and upgrades impossible. Unfortunately, some users believe these comments from writers and have never tried and tested this on their own, only because those writers are known as “experts.”

If you get confirmation that a feature update should succeed even with that change, then you would need help identifying the cause of the failure.

Only a couple of people sometimes devote the hours and perhaps 10s of posts to trying to do that.

To avoid the possibility of such contention I avoid making such changes myself, but that's just my personal approach.

Having gotten my first computer in '92 with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 then a job in a computer store in '94 I've experienced a lot of builds and installs and the preeminent thing was that programs' installers look for things being in a standard location in the OS. Many were in having the swapfile/paging file and a Temp folder for working space, messing with those can cause issues. I don't Move my User folders but if possible make the same on a second partition or a second drive then wherever possible change the default locations such as for Browser's downloads, word processor files, etc.

In the end, your main issue is that you are keeping all your main data on the user drives but really should store them on a separate drive, and keep user directories on C drive and just use them for temporary data syncing data to other drives/partitions.

Suggest you raise this under the relevant tutorial with a link to this thread as you've looked into this at some length... others who use this kind of configuration may then share their experience.

Not a Number said:

From the errors it seems the updates need the Users folder to be on the system drive (C:) and would complete if I moved the Users folders to the C: drive via again Kari's tutorial.

If you do post in Kari's tutorial I suggest you
- include those error codes
- state which previous Version updates have succeeded since you moved your Users folder.

I have no experience of your problem so I cannot give you any direct advice. I do not move my Users folder because I don't see the point.
- You can just use another drive without doing so.
- Your method allows your OS drive to avoid the space used up by AppData but that does not seem to be much of a benefit to me.

All the best,
Denis

Not a Number said:

Note: I tried running setup.exe as an administrator.

Not necessary, it will demand elevation itself when it starts running.

Not a Number said:

I tried activating the Administrator account and running setup from there

Not advisable.
This account, which is no more powerful than any Admin account you have created yourself anyway, has undocumented limitations which have varied over time.
You would not know if anything that happened was caused by a fault with your computer or an undocumented account limitation.


Best of luck,
Denis