Windows 10: For mistake, I merge download folder and :/D folder , how to restore

I have two disk, one ssd and other (DDATA, because I wanted to save space in C disk, I wanted to change the location of the download folder, that was originally in C, when I changed the location, for a mistake a reassign D to be downloads folder. How can I restore this? I think that I don't have Respalds on the computer, cause its a brand new.


Thank you very much.

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Accidentally Merged my Downloads Folder with my D: Drive

I was running out of space on my C: Drive (SSD) so I decided to change the location of my Downloads folder to my D: Drive which I generally use for my games.

Anyways, I did the properties>location>move and then selected D: Drive. I went ahead and it has now merged the two together. I tried the restore default but get an error saying Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "D:\System Volume
Information". Access is denied.

Is there anyway to separate the two, or is it beyond repair now? I can restore windows to it's state it was in yesterday but will that un merge/separate my Downloads and D: Drive?

Thanks.

 

Downloads folder is the Documents folder

Hi Chris,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to Restore to Default the folders and document settings and see if it helps.

Step 1:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Download folder.
• Right click on the Download Folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

Step 2:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Documents folder.
• Right click on the Document folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

After performing above steps change the settings as you required and check if it helps.

Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

Download and Documents folders merged

Hey everyone,

So I tried to change the default user locations for my downloads, videos, documents and etc folders from the C to the D drive.

While doing so, somehow, I merged the documents and downloads folder into one even though they still show separately.

When I click on "This PC" and the folders show up, I right click, go to properties, locations, I change the location for the downloads folder and the change also applies to the documents folder too.

How do I restore them to being separate?