Windows 10: Moving my "Documents" Folder to New Volume -- Oddity

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    Moving my "Documents" Folder to New Volume -- Oddity


    On new Windows 11 24H2 system with a local "Standard" user account and administrator accounts, of course, I tried to move my "Documents" folder in this account from the original location on C:\Users\accountname\ to newly created volume at E:\accountname\. I used the standard? procedure of right-clicking on Documents, selecting Properties, and then selecting Move under the Location tab before pointing to E:\accountname.What actually happened is that my Documents folder re-appeared at C:\Documents! Where did the "accountname" level in the hierarchy go?Even more oddly, when I look at th

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