Windows 10 change user folders location on a NTFS mounted volume
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I have two drives, on the bigger one I have created a NTFS partition and mounted it on an empty C:Home folder, and I have changed the location of user folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, ...) to this folder, so that I now have C:HomemyuserDesktop, and so on.
Is this a Microsoft-supported configuration ? I am asking because it works from the GUI (even if I see duplicated icons for each relocated folder), but from the Command Prompt I cannot see anything if I issue a "dir %USERPROFILE%Desktop" command.
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I have two drives, on the bigger one I have created a NTFS partition and mounted it on an empty C:Home folder, and I have changed the location of user folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, ...) to this folder, so that I now have C:HomemyuserDesktop, and so on.
Is this a Microsoft-supported configuration ? I am asking because it works from the GUI (even if I see duplicated icons for each relocated folder), but from the Command Prompt I cannot see anything if I issue a "dir %USERPROFILE%Desktop" command.
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I have two drives, on the bigger one I have created a NTFS partition and mounted it on an empty C:Home folder, and I have changed the location of user folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, ...) to this folder, so that I now have C:HomemyuserDesktop, and so on.
Is this a Microsoft-supported configuration ? I am asking because it works from the GUI (even if I see duplicated icons for each relocated folder), but from the Command Prompt I cannot see anything if I issue a "dir %USERPROFILE%Desktop" command.
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I have two drives, on the bigger one I have created a NTFS partition and mounted it on an empty C:Home folder, and I have changed the location of user folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, ...) to this folder, so that I now have C:HomemyuserDesktop, and so on.
Is this a Microsoft-supported configuration ? I am asking because it works from the GUI (even if I see duplicated icons for each relocated folder), but from the Command Prompt I cannot see anything if I issue a "dir %USERPROFILE%Desktop" command.
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You have only changed the location of some sub-folders of your profile,
but the location of the basic profile folder didn't change,
so %USERPROFILE% still points to where it did before.
Windows is not intelligent enough to understand that it needs to do something
more for %USERPROFILE%Desktop than just textually substitute the value of
%USERPROFILE%.
For alternative methods to get the current location of such relocated folders,
see the post :
Windows command prompt - Get relocated user's Documents folder.
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You have only changed the location of some sub-folders of your profile,
but the location of the basic profile folder didn't change,
so %USERPROFILE% still points to where it did before.
Windows is not intelligent enough to understand that it needs to do something
more for %USERPROFILE%Desktop than just textually substitute the value of
%USERPROFILE%.
For alternative methods to get the current location of such relocated folders,
see the post :
Windows command prompt - Get relocated user's Documents folder.
answered Nov 22 at 9:22
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You have only changed the location of some sub-folders of your profile,
but the location of the basic profile folder didn't change,
so %USERPROFILE% still points to where it did before.
Windows is not intelligent enough to understand that it needs to do something
more for %USERPROFILE%Desktop than just textually substitute the value of
%USERPROFILE%.
For alternative methods to get the current location of such relocated folders,
see the post :
Windows command prompt - Get relocated user's Documents folder.
answered Nov 22 at 9:22
harrymc
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You have only changed the location of some sub-folders of your profile,
but the location of the basic profile folder didn't change,
so %USERPROFILE% still points to where it did before.
Windows is not intelligent enough to understand that it needs to do something
more for %USERPROFILE%Desktop than just textually substitute the value of
%USERPROFILE%.
For alternative methods to get the current location of such relocated folders,
see the post :
Windows command prompt - Get relocated user's Documents folder.
answered Nov 22 at 9:22
harrymc
249k10257550
You have only changed the location of some sub-folders of your profile,
but the location of the basic profile folder didn't change,
so %USERPROFILE% still points to where it did before.
Windows is not intelligent enough to understand that it needs to do something
more for %USERPROFILE%Desktop than just textually substitute the value of
%USERPROFILE%.
For alternative methods to get the current location of such relocated folders,
see the post :
Windows command prompt - Get relocated user's Documents folder.
answered Nov 22 at 9:22
harrymc
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answered Nov 22 at 9:22
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