Windows 10: Change download folder location but still saves to original drive.

Hey all.


I changed the Download folder location from my OS Drive (C:\) to my (F:\) drive. However, even after making this change, items are still being downloaded into the C drive, and cannot be found on the folder assigned for the downloads in my F drive.


Am I missing something? The location is changed when I view the properties for the download folder, but there is still a Downloads Folder under C:\users\name\downloads that my downloads are being routed to instead. This is just a regular folder called downloads which cannot be deleted or have its location modified.


Thanks for the help!

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Unable to restore original downloads folder location

Dear community,

I have a new Windows 8 computer.

The hard drive is separated in two, OS (C and DATA (D and I realised that all my files were being stored in drive C:

I read online that you could modify where folders like 'My documents' are stored by clicking Properties and change the location to the other disk.

I did it for the Documents folders and everything was fine, I now had a Documents folder in my D: drive.

Then, I did the same with my Downloads folder, and selected the location D:\

After this I realised that my D: drive and the Downloads folder had completely merged !!

Which meant, when I was going to my DATA (D I could find all my downloads as well as my Documents folder.

All the same, when I was clicking on Downloads, my Documents folder was in it!

So I clicked on Downloads and tried to restore default location but I got the error message that it was impossible to "create sub-lists under D: System Volume Information. Access Denied". I tried to input the location manually but the same occurred.

Now, my Downloads folder has changed name, it is called D:\ and my DATA (D drive says in the Location tab that its default location is in C:/Users/Downloads

I don't understand why this happened and surely this can't be very good for the good functioning of my PC...

Could I restore my system to just before it happened even though I never 'saved' my computer?

Otherwise, what can I do to fix this?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Khan