Fixing where documents points to

[Chevytech65]

Hi all,

 

I finally got around to installing an SATA m.2 drive into my girlfriend's laptop and got everything cloned over no problem. The issue I am having is I forgot to make the documents folder on the hdd before moving it back over. Right now the quick access and the This PC documents folder just go to the root of the drive not the documents folder itself. When I try moving it into the folder that I made for the documents is giving me "Can't redirect a parent into a child. The specified path is invalid." I have also tried restoring to default (C:\user\user name\Documents) and I get "Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under D:\System Volume Information. Access is denied." The D drive is the hdd that came with it that I formatted before trying to move everything over. Any help is much appreciated as she has school work that needs to be done today!

[homeap5]

I'm not sure if I understand it right, because if you clone drive, you also clone documents folder.

But anyway, default locations you can find here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

Documents key has name "Personal" and value "%USERPROFILE%\Documents"

Default values I attached as registry key.

defaultlocations.reg

[Chevytech65]

Thanks for the reply, hopefully I can clear this up a little. I cloned everything over to the new ssd and it had all the folders and files on it no problem. I wanted to move the documents, pictures, music, etc. back onto the hard drive to keep the ssd as free as possible. I was successful at getting everything over except the documents folder as I forgot to make the folder for it. How do I go about using the registry key? I haven't messed with registries before. Will that go in a fix where that folder is located?

[homeap5]

15 minutes ago, Chevytech65 said:

Thanks for the reply, hopefully I can clear this up a little. I cloned everything over to the new ssd and it had all the folders and files on it no problem. I wanted to move the documents, pictures, music, etc. back onto the hard drive to keep the ssd as free as possible. I was successful at getting everything over except the documents folder as I forgot to make the folder for it. How do I go about using the registry key? I haven't messed with registries before. Will that go in a fix where that folder is located?

It's only default settings registry file. So it go back to previous, original settings.

 

And btw. learn how to work with normal folders - create folder "music" or "downloads" or whatever you want yourself and use it instead rely on system paths. It's better that way. You can add favorite paths to your explorer and use them in any program, you can change paths in programs to use your own directories, why using that stupid predefined ones?

 

Also - keeping SSD as free as possible is waste of money - you pay for that drive not for keeping it free, isn't?

 

[Chevytech65]

Thanks, I ran it and it fixed the problem. I know how to work with the folders cuz I have 3 drives in my desktop but my girlfriend isn't as technology inclined and I wanted to keep things as simple as possible for her. She does photo editing on the side as a hobby so there will be a lot of photos that will be stored onto this laptop. I'm going to try to get her to have a working folder on the ssd that she will edit and save the pictures to and then when they are done move them to the hdd as she won't be accessing them a lot.