Windows 10: I mistakenly made my D: drive as document folder.

I was planning to move my documents folder from C:\Users\Inspiron Laptop\Documents to D:\Documents. But instead I made the whole drive D: as documents folder. After this I tried restoring default location of the documents folder via properties to undo my mistake but a pop-up appears saying

"The folder cant be moved here. Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under 'D:\System Volume Information'. Access denied"

Please help me. Thank you!

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Accidentally saved my documents folder to the Hard drive (D without a location

This is a common enough occurrence, here is how to put your My Documents back into a folder:

• Open Windows File Explorer, create a folder called My Documents on your D Drive
• Put whatever files and folder should be in your My Documents folder into that folder
• Click on Quick Access on the left hand side of File Explorer
• On the right hand side right click the My Documents Library Folder and select Properties
• Select the Location Tab and Type D:\My Documents as the location
• When asked if you want to Merge Contents - select No

I hope this Helps!

 

I changed my location for 'Documents' and now Drive D has the 'Documents' icon

I've always changed the location of Documents and Downloads to my 'Data' partition. I just did a clean install of Windows 10 and changed Documents location to drive D. Usually the icon for these two folders follows and displays on drive D.

Not sure why it didn't this time, but can you tell me how I can change these 2 folder icons? I know how to change icons, but I don't see these 2 icons in the list of Windows icons.

Thx.

 

My documents folder became the Hard drive (D

Hi Chi

Open your D Drive in File Explorer

If there is no Documents folder on that drive, right click and choose New Folder, then name it Documents

Open the Registry Editor again, it will still be on the same page

Double click Personal, then set its value data to this and click OK

D:\Documents

Double click {F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756}, then set its value data to this and click OK

D:\Documents

Close the Registry Editor and restart (not shut down) your PC

That will have separated your Documents folder form your D drive, you may need to manually move any files or folders that should be in your Documents folder into that new folder . . .