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Same account; different %USERNAME
In the last few years I've installed W10 on several devices. Somehow I've ended up with different "usernames". So on one machine, my %USERPROFILE is \Users\Phil and on others \Users\pasp or \Users\pasp_000. ("pasp" comes from the Microsoft account I'm using.) As I use OneDrive more and more, this gets to be a nuisance. Most recently I started using Access on a machine, and the linked tables were broken. I can't see any way to tell Access to use an environment variable. In other scenarios, shortcuts don't work except on the machine on which they were created; nor do file:// links in OneNote. So, if I'm going to do something about it, what's the best solution? I guess I could map a drive to the OneDrive folder and use that - O: suggests itself. Or maybe I could create a junction point - maybe C:\Users\ME perhaps. Maybe I could fool around with my profile and change the underlying %USERNAME and all consequent folder names, but I'd rather expect there to be gaps unless there is some system-wide way of doing this, and one which isn't going to leave behind applications installed before the change. It's frustrating that I can't use the existing environment variables (e.g. % USERNAME, %USERPROFILE, %HOMEPATH and there are also %OneDrive and % OneDriveConsumer - it's just that the various linking mechanisms described above can't seem to use them. Any ideas? -- Phil, London |
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