Windows 10: Unable to restore Default Location in This PC Documents or Pictures. One Drive Casualty...

Got rid of that pesky One Drive, or at least I thought.After un syncing, and deleting One Drive as a program, I still have it show up in the Location Tab of the Document Properties?It won't let me Restore Default to original location. I get the "Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected. Access is denied."warning.Yes, I've read the other threads here where it recommends changing the folders in the registry. I've done that to no avail.What to do?

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Restore Default Locations of “Documents” in “Users” & “This PC”

Hello dmhlt, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Double check again using the tutorial below to make sure that you have "Documents" set to "This PC only" in your OneDrive settings to see if that may be the issue.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

If that doesn't help, then also double check your storage save locations settings using the tutorial below to make sure "New documents will save to" is set to "This PC".

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

If this still doesn't help, then you could use step 4 in OPTION TWO below to restore the default location of your "%UserProfile%\Documents" folder.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

Cannot restore default location of Documents folder

Hello MurakamiFan, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you like, you can download and merge the .reg file in step 5 of Option Two in the tutorial below to automatically restore the default location of your Documents folder.

*Arrow Restore Default Location of Personal Folders in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Can't restore Documents folder to default location

AFTER deleting the OneDrive app (Office 2013) and making a copy of the contents to another drive I noticed that my documents are now actually saving in:

===>c:\users\admin\documents\onedrive\documents.

Again, this is after I had deleted the OneDrive program and making a copy of the contents of My documents in the OneDrive cloud.

I tried to move the documents and also restore to the default location at:

===> c:\users\admin\documents

... but when I try to do that, I get an error:

"The folder can't be move here
Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected. Access is denied."

So how do I restore the Documents folder to each default location? I'd appreciate suggestions or a link to a solution. Thanks.

EDIT: Never mind. Found a batch file which worked with the registry. Solved. Here's the solution:

Restore Default Location of Personal Folders in Windows 10