3 "documents" folders PLEASE help

[Vandorlot]

Sorry about the crappy title. What is going on with my pc. There are 3 document folders, and there is only a c drive where as I created another d drive in disk management please help.

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You will have to mount (assign drive letter) the "Data" partition as "D:\"

[Vandorlot]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

You will have to mount (assign drive letter) the "Data" partition as "D:\"

wht about the 3 documents folders?

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Just now, Vandorlot said:

wht about the 3 documents folders?

I'm not sure, that could be a bug, or it could be something else (or maybe both).

If you get "Preferences" on each of them and show the "Location" tab it might shed some light on this

[Vandorlot]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm not sure, that could be a bug, or it could be something else (or maybe both).

If you get "Preferences" on each of them and show the "Location" tab it might shed some light on this

The location is the same for all of them. When i change one the rest change as well.

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Just now, Vandorlot said:

The location is the same for all of them. When i change one the rest change as well.

Interesting, could you go to C:\Users\<you>\ and check it for the Downloads, Desktop, and Documents folders in there?  Hopefully those are correct since those are actually the real ones (unless you moved them).

[Vandorlot]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Interesting, could you go to C:\Users\<you>\ and check it for the Downloads, Desktop, and Documents folders in there?  Hopefully those are correct since those are actually the real ones (unless you moved them).

How?

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Just now, Vandorlot said:

How?

In File Explorer... I can't get more specific than that, sorry.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Could you go to C;\users\<your username> and post a screenshot of what is there?

[EunSoo]

1. How did you do that? An honest question so I can see if there is a way to reverse engineer the solution.

2. You must have a Desktop and Downloads folder still, so that's not an issue, right? Also, do all three of those shortcuts lead to the same destination?

[HunterSkater429]

Looks like they are just remaned, because the icons are the same.

 

Maybe there is an invisible charter at the end letting it have the same name or somethibg 

[Vandorlot]

7 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Could you go to C;\users\<your username> and post a screenshot of what is there?

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

3 minutes ago, Vandorlot said:

 

Okay, in that folder, try creating two new folders named "Desktop" and "Downloads". 

 

I'm thinking the system can't find the Downloads and Desktop folders (because they're not there), so they're just using the Documents folder for some reason. 

 

EDIT: Also, delete or rename one of those Documents folders (check what is in them first. If one is empty, delete it or if it has non-documents things in it, move them somewhere else and delete or rename the folder. 

[Vandorlot]

10 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

1. How did you do that? An honest question so I can see if there is a way to reverse engineer the solution.

2. You must have a Desktop and Downloads folder still, so that's not an issue, right? Also, do all three of those shortcuts lead to the same destination?

2) Yes

1) So, I clicked the properties of each folder and changed it to the D:/ . Then realizing I made a mistake I completlely unformated the D drive as there wasnt anything on it. Then restarted my pc and its like this now.

 

10 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Okay, in that folder, try creating two new folders named "Desktop" and "Downloads". 

 

I'm thinking the system can't find the Downloads and Desktop folders (because they're not there), so they're just using the Documents folder for some reason. 

I tried creating desktop and it gives me the first image. Then i click yes and nothing happens.

[Oshino Shinobu]

10 hours ago, Vandorlot said:

2) Yes

1) So, I clicked the properties of each folder and changed it to the D:/ . Then realizing I made a mistake I completlely unformated the D drive as there wasnt anything on it. Then restarted my pc and its like this now.

Go into the first two document's properties (the ones with the downloads and desktop icons by them) and go to the location tab. Click on reset to default and see what it does. That, combined with creating the folders as i mentioned before should get it back to normal. After that you can create folders on the D drive and map them. 

 

10 hours ago, Vandorlot said:

I tried creating desktop and it gives me the first image. Then i click yes and nothing happens.

Check the two Documents folders for their contents. If there's one that has the same things as on your Desktop, rename it to "Desktop". What happens with the Downloads folder?

[EunSoo]

Just now, Vandorlot said:

2) Yes

1) So, I clicked the properties of each folder and changed it to the D:/ . Then realizing I made a mistake I completlely unformated the D drive as there wasnt anything on it. Then restarted my pc and its like this now.

Ok. So, can you change the path back to something like D:/Download, D:/Desktop etc. Your desktop folder is still obviously functional. Try changing the paths according to their icon.

[Vandorlot]

Just now, SCGazelle said:

Ok. So, can you change the path back to something like D:/Download, D:/Desktop etc. Your desktop folder is still obviously functional. Try changing the paths according to their icon.

 

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Check the two Documents folders for their contents. If there's one that has the same things as on your Desktop, rename it to "Desktop". What happens with the Downloads folder?

I tried changing the dsektop one to C:\Users\Volodymyr\Desktop. It just changed all 3 to the same path.

[EunSoo]

8 minutes ago, Vandorlot said:

 

I tried changing the dsektop one to C:\Users\Volodymyr\Desktop. It just changed all 3 to the same path.

do all three folders have the same contents? Try searching for the other folders.

[Vandorlot]

10 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

do all three folders have the same contents? Try searching for the other folders.

Yes they do

10 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

do all three folders have the same contents? Try searching for the other folders.

I have documents and desktop, but when i try to set them to the location they all switch to it.

[Vandorlot]

19 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

do all three folders have the same contents? Try searching for the other folders.

 

19 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Go into the first two document's properties (the ones with the downloads and desktop icons by them) and go to the location tab. Click on reset to default and see what it does. That, combined with creating the folders as i mentioned before should get it back to normal. After that you can create folders on the D drive and map them. 

 

Check the two Documents folders for their contents. If there's one that has the same things as on your Desktop, rename it to "Desktop". What happens with the Downloads folder?

I managed to fix this with creating a new user on the desktop and switching over to it. Then deleting the old user.