Separate Windows System Folders

Nikeshp79 · February 23, 2016

OK, so I needed to free up some space on my C:// drive, so I started moving my windows system folders (music, videos, downloads etc.) to another partition and, being rash, I ended up merging my downloads folder with my videos folder and has resulted in me having two videos folders. It's annoying, and have spent a few hours trying to find a solution to no avail, trying to set the defaul location, going through registry and this restoring system folders thing using .bat files (see link here http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23504-users-personal-folders-restore-default-location-windows-10-a.html ). It's more the fact these folders are now merged rather thanlocation of them as they now have the same location and I cannot separate them, changing the location of one changes the location of the other.

I have Windows 10, and if anyone has a solution please let me know, I really appreciate it! It's an annoying problem that I can't separate them!

Here's how it looks right now

GoodBytes · February 23, 2016

I don't know what are you doing.

But if you want to move your personal folders (Documents, Picture, Videos, etc.), Simply right-click on of the folder you want to move, select: Properties.

A panel will open, go to the Location tab, and from there you can specify a new location. Enter the new location, and click on "OK". A prompt will show asking you if you want to move the folder to the new destination, click on "Yes".

That is all.

You cannot move any system folder. Only your personal folders ( Documents, Picture, Videos, etc. ).

Nikeshp79 · February 23, 2016

2 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

I don't know what are you doing.

But if you want to move your personal folders (Documents, Picture, Videos, etc.), Simply right-click on of the folder you want to move, select: Properties.

A panel will open, go to the Location tab, and from there you can specify a new location. Enter the new location, and click on "OK". A prompt will show asking you if you want to move the folder to the new destination, click on "Yes".

That is all.

You cannot move any system folder. Only your personal folders ( Documents, Picture, Videos, etc. ).

Well originally, to free up space, that is what I done, moved the location of those personal folders. I was trying to move them all to the G drive, and it ended up setting the new location to the G drive (G:) rather than (G:\Videos, for example). This caused them to merge, and have their locations linked, and now I am unable to separate them.

Here's what the locations of both the videos folders, where one was originally the downloads folder.
<--formerly downloads folder