Windows 10: Duplicate Desktop named user folders after trying to relocate the user folders to D:

Got a new computer and wanted to move my desktop, downloads, documents user folder locations to D: drive isntead of C:Somehow accidentally got it to turn the Downloads folder to be named Desktop aswelland I cant seem to change the name back to DownloadsCan anybody help me fix this please?

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Relocating User Desktop Folder Problem

I need help correcting a problem I created with the relocation of my user Desktop folder.

I am new to Windows 10, and I have limited experience with Windows7.

System:
Lenovo M725s
Windows 10 Pro, 1909 Build 18363.815
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro CPU
8 GB memory
C: SSD, D: hard file

I wanted to relocate my user Desktop folder from my C drive (SSD) to the D drive. I made a mistake in specifying the path in the relocation dialog box, and by not creating the D:\MyUser\Joe\Desktop folder before initiating the relocation.

* I did not create the D:MyUsers\Joe\Desktop folder before trying to move the folder
* I typed D:\MyUsers\Joe as the relocation path, instead of D:\MyUsers\Joe\Desktop

The net effect seems to be a merge of the Desktop and other user Folders in the D:\MyUsers\Joe folder.

How do I recover from this mistake? Some possibilities from my research on the forum.

1. Manually recreate the folders with the appropriate attributes, permissions and locations.
* * How do I do this?
* * The I've accidentally replaced my User folder with my Pictures folder
link seems to offer some try-and-retry suggestions (2018 post).

2. Create a new user account (eg Joe2) and copy the backup date to the new user account folders, delete the Joe account, and then recreate the Joe account (or just live with the Joe2 account).
* * Any way to recreate User folders w/o reinstall?

3. Use the system restore capability.
* * How do I know the date of the restore point(s)?
* * How do I restore?
* * Will the restore recreate the user profile folders with the appropriate attributes and permissions?

4. Re-image the C: and D: drive from the CloneZilla image. The images were made in Feb 2020, so a lot of recovery and application reinstallation work might be necessary.

Before making the Desktop folder relocation change I had done the following on the system.

* Installed the latest MS Windows 10 update, so hopefully I have a recent restore point before I made the folder relocation mistake.

* Backup of the user folders to an external hard drive before trying to move the Desktop folder

* I then tried to relocate the Desktop folder to the D drive so it would be easier to backup along with the other user folders.

I tried to relocate the user Desktop folder from the C drive to the D drive. This was similar to my previous relocation of some “user” folders such as the Documents, Pictures and other folders. Unfortunately I tried to perform the relocation steps from memory instead of following a set of written instructions. I did not create the Desktop folder in the D drive users directory before making the change which seems to have merged the relocated Desktop folder with the other user folders.

I will show screenshots of 2 different user accounts: Joe and Joe Admin. The Joe Admin account is an admin account, that I did not try to modify. The Joe account is the account where I tried to relocated the Desktop folder.

There is a 5 image limitation on uploading jpg files. So, I created a pdf file with the text and related images.


Thank you in advance for your assistance.

 

Relocate user folders

Running Windows 10. I have 4 users using this desktop. I would like to relocate the user document folders to another drive. I've tried to put a folder named J:\Users\Steve to an external drive but it comes up J:\Documents. I would like 4 folders named
J:\Users\Steve, J:\User\Jane, J:\Users\Dale and J:\Users\Joe. How can this be accomplished. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Duplicate User folder.

I moved my default Pictures, Documents, Music folders to a new Data partition (D).

My Users/myName folder remained on the C partition.

Everything was fine for 2 years.

For some reason this myName folder is now duplicated on the D partition (D\myName)

I have now a default documents folder in

• D\Documents
• D\myName\Documents
• Onedrive\Documents
• C\Users\myName\Documents

The same with the other system folders.

I can not change the location of the folders in the 2 duplicate user folders.

Rightclicking in properties, there is no location option.

Only the folders in OneDrive and the D partition have this option.

Any ideas?