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  1. bzack Win User

    How do I move user folders to local drive in Windows 11?


    My documents, desktop and pictures folders are all on OneDrive. I do not want to completely remove my files from OneDrive, but I do want those folders to be located on my local drive and to be able to choose which ones are backed up to OneDrive.

    :)
     
    bzack, Sep 3, 2024
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  2. User folder is a local drive

    I accedentaly choosed local drive as location of one of my user folder and now I can't change it back cus' user folder is literally a local drive. That means if I change location of this user folder I change local drive location which cannot be done on my
    PC(it's so f huge(for you)).

    wat do
     
    I clicked something and everything cracks, Sep 3, 2024
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  3. Mystery local user present with no account

    Good afternoon Andre,

    Thank you for your feedback, most appreciated. I tried both of your suggestions and the 1st5 user was not listed in either, just my original local user name was listed. I also tried to cut the 1st5 user folder from the C;/users listing and paste it to a
    thumb drive so I didn't loose it but I got this error code, 0x80070057, that prevents me from moving it saying the "parameter is incorrect". Any other suggestions would be welcomed.

    R/Confused

    Also when I got the error I mentioned above there was a Folder with a person's picture and MY local user name, not the 1st5 user name.
     
    J.W. Sargent, Sep 3, 2024
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  4. Kari Win User

    How do I move user folders to local drive in Windows 11?

    Local Acct user and MS account user - sync them or merge them

    If the local account is the one where you have most of your personal data, this is how I would do it:

    • Sign in to your Microsoft account
    • Copy all documents, pictures and other personal data from Microsoft account's user folders to corresponding folders in user Public (contents of MS account Documents folder to Public Documents folder and so on)
    • Sign out from Microsoft account
    Notice that above steps are only required if Microsoft account user folders contain data you want to keep. If its user folders are empty or do not contain anything worth saving, you can skip the above steps. Continue from below.

    • Sign in to the local account
    • Delete the Microsoft account (Option One in this tutorial)
    • Switch your local account to a Microsoft account (tutorial)
    • Copy the data backed up from old Microsoft account to Public folders to new Microsoft account in corresponding folders

    That's it. Using the Public folders as temporary storage you will have none whatsoever file owner / permission issues later on.
     
    Kari, Sep 3, 2024
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