Download Folder

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, HCStrike said:

I cant though. It is just a folder not a proper library

If you can't, you're not looking at the correct folder. 

Whatever the downloads location ends up being is a library.

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

If you can't, you're not looking at the correct folder. 

Whatever the downloads location ends up being is a library.

Well when i download something off chrome it goes straight into my D drive

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

Well when i download something off chrome it goes straight into my D drive

In that case, your D drive is your library. Right click the D drive and go to the Locations tab to change the library location.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Aha!

 

Open up the registry editor (you can search for "regedit" in Start Search), then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and see if something there is set to your D:\ drive. Annoyingly it's not labeled "Downloads".

[HCStrike]

Im now getting this error: http://prntscr.com/cirqgf

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Did you find the registry and change its location?

[HCStrike]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Did you find the registry and change its location?

I cant im getting an error shown in the link http://prntscr.com/cirqgf

[HCStrike]

7 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

In that case, your D drive is your library. Right click the D drive and go to the Locations tab to change the library location.

Doesn't work

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

Doesn't work

What do you see when you right click your D drive?

[HCStrike]

Just now, WoodenMarker said:

What do you see when you right click your D drive?

I can restore the location to C:\Users\Harry\Downloads but I get this error when I click apply http://prntscr.com/cirtow

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

I can restore the location to C:\Users\Harry\Downloads but I get this error when I click apply http://prntscr.com/cirtow

Are you using an Administrator account?

[HCStrike]

Just now, WoodenMarker said:

Are you using an Administrator account?

Yep

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

Yep

What did you do before getting the error?

[HCStrike]

Just now, WoodenMarker said:

What did you do before getting the error?

What do you mean

[Mira Yurizaki]

Okay, the problem is Windows will only move the contents of the previous directory into your new one, which means it wants to move file system stuff that can't move because they're vital to the file system. It won't simply assign the path. So you have two options:

1. Don't use what you have set as your downloads folder
2. Create a new user account, log into it , then copy all of the data from your original user account over (best way to do this is open the Command Prompt as an administrator, then type in: robocopy C:\Users\Harry C:\Users\[folder of new user account] /MIR), then delete the old account.

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

What do you mean

It's unclear as to what you're doing right now. 

What did you click before receiving the error?

[HCStrike]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Okay, the problem is Windows will only move the contents of the previous directory into your new one, which means it wants to move file system stuff that can't move because they're vital to the file system. It won't simply assign the path. So you have two options:

1. Don't use what you have set as your downloads folder
2. Create a new user account, log into it , then copy all of the data from your original user account over (best way to do this is open the Command Prompt as an administrator, then type in: robocopy C:\Users\Harry C:\Users\[folder of new user account] /MIR), then delete the old account.

No other option?

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, HCStrike said:

No other option?

Correct, because this is just how Windows wants to do things.

 

EDIT: This may sound dumb but in reality, if a layperson assigned a different directory to their user folders, they may go "where's all the stuff I had?"

 

And sometimes adding more options doesn't help the UX.

[HCStrike]

4 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

What did you do before getting the error?

Or I get this error http://prntscr.com/cirwwq

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, HCStrike said:

Or I get this error http://prntscr.com/cirwwq

That's not answering the question..

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

That's not answering the question..

I know I dont understand your question. I have done nothing

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, HCStrike said:

I know I dont understand your question. I have done nothing

So, you just sat in front of the computer, didn't click or press anything, and the error popped up?

[HCStrike]

Just now, WoodenMarker said:

So, you just sat in front of the computer, didn't click or press anything, and the error popped up?

Ok I clicked restore to make it go back to C:\Users\Harry then Clicked yes on the popup and the error popped up

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, HCStrike said:

Ok I clicked restore to make it go back to C:\Users\Harry then Clicked yes on the popup and the error popped up

Where was the restore button?

You should be just moving the library from the Downloads folder Location tab instead.

[Mira Yurizaki]

6 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

Where was the restore button?

You should be just moving the library from the Downloads folder Location tab instead.

Windows will attempt to move the contents of the previous folder into the new folder. Since OP listed D:\ it will attempt to move everything (I think if they're getting this error), but it hits the file system files (which cannot be moved) and stops the operation.

 

So OP is basically SOL trying to set a new directory.