Windows 10: Macrium reflect .xml file saved location

Win 10 ver 1903

I noticed when imaging C/: to F/:folder name that the back up definition .xml file was being saved to One drive.
I never selected this. Does that mean that I will have to have internet and point the Macrium rescue media to that file on one drive in order to restore?



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Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
   
   
   
4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
5. Boot up with your new HD.

 

Making HDD as default saving location instead of sdd for files

Hi Kiefer,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.
I will surely help you to fix this issue.

I suggest you to try the following steps to change default saving locations. Check if it helps.

• 
  Click on Start and click on
  Settings.
  
• 
  Open System and click on
  Storage in the left-pane.
  
• 
  Under the section Save Locations in the
  right-pane, select the appropriate location to which you want to save files.
  
• 
  Restart the computer and check if it helps.
  

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of the issue so that we can assist you further.

 

MS Paint "Save as" location is NOT the file source location


Hi,

In Windows 8.1 (and as far as I can remember in all previous Windows versions) I used to be able to do the following:

• In Windows Explorer: Open a .jpg file from anywhere in my file system, by right mouse clicking and choosing "edit"
• After editing: "Save as" (press F12) and save the edited file IN ITS ORIGINAL LOCATION but under a different name.

Now, in Windows 10, the situation is different:

• In Windows Explorer I open a .jpg file from anywhere in my file system by right mouse clicking and choosing "edit"
• After editing: "Save as" (F12) opens a dialogue box that suggests I save the file, NOT in its original location, but in a location that is either the default "pictures" directory or the directory that was previously used as a "save as" location in Paint (these locations are stored in the registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Paint\Recent File List")

Now I'd like very much to get the old, Windows 8 type situation back because this does not work for me! It's very inconvenient to have to scroll and click my way through the "save as" dialogue box until I finally find the directory where the edited file was stored in the first place! Why o why does Windows not remember this location?
I've searched through the internet but it seems nobody else has this problem. I've searched the registry for the word "paint" but was not able to find a setting that would suggest to have some influence on the default saving location of Paint.

Can someone please, please help me? It's driving me nuts! And it's sooo frustrating knowing that it used to work like a charm in WIN8.1 and before.

To clarify the difficulty I experience I perhaps should add that the jpg files I most frequently edit are located on shares on my NAS in paths such as:
M:\1_KLAS\Bach\Kerk\Jos van Veldhoven\Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 (24-88 2010)\scans\001.jpg
As you can see, that's buried quite deeply into the file system! And so it costs all the more time and effort to find my way back from the previously edited jpg, say:
M:\1_KLAS\Bruckner\Orkest\Chailly\Symfonie Nr.6 & Wolf - 4 Goethe Lieder (Goerne, KCO)\scans\001.jpg

P.S. I read somewhere that the "save as" dialogue boxes for Paint and Notepad should be basically the same. But... when I use Notepad to edit some txt file and afterwards use the "save as" option, it does direct me to the original location of the edited file, just as it used to do in Windows 8.1! That tells me that it should still be possible to get the old "save as" behaviour back for Paint. (Or am I being too optimistic here?)
P.P.S. F12 does not work anymore in Notepad. You have to go through the menu "File" -> "Save as..." That's also a pain in the ass

Which registry key will do the trick for me?