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Old August 31st 18, 02:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Patrick[_9_]
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Default Reinstalled W10, Documents & Pictures , in wrong place.

Hello everyone, I have just reinstalled W10 completly as it showed as
Unactivated and was crawling horibly.
The new Installation now shows as 'Digitally Activated''

Problem being;

'This PC/Documents' is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Documents'
'This PC/Pictures is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Pictures'
Please see; https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf6c9m10pu...oard0.jpg?dl=0

If I click on 'Restore Default' the entry changes to the required
location, BUT'
When I click 'OK' or 'Apply', I get (as expected) this;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg35zfr6ic...37.51.png?dl=0

Whatever I answer to above, I get this error;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7khiqn4qxl...39.26.png?dl=0

Video & Music are in the correct location.
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Old August 31st 18, 02:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jonathan N. Little[_2_]
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Default Reinstalled W10, Documents & Pictures , in wrong place.

Patrick wrote:
Hello everyone, I have just reinstalled W10 completly as it showed as
Unactivated and was crawling horibly.
The new Installation now shows as 'Digitally Activated''

Problem being;

'This PC/Documents' is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Documents'
'This PC/Pictures is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Pictures'
Please see; https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf6c9m10pu...oard0.jpg?dl=0

If I click on 'Restore Default' the entry changes to the required
location, BUT'
When I click 'OK' or 'Apply', I get (as expected) this;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg35zfr6ic...37.51.png?dl=0


Whatever I answer to above, I get this error;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7khiqn4qxl...39.26.png?dl=0


Video & Music are in the correct location.



How about in File Explorer manually move
C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Documents\*.* to C:\Users\Patri\Documents\

and manually move
C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Pictures\*.* to C:\Users\Patri\Pictures\

Then 'Restore Default' for locations but this time click 'No' on choice
to move the files since you have already done so.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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Old August 31st 18, 04:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Patrick[_9_]
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Default Reinstalled W10, Documents & Pictures , in wrong place.

On 31/08/2018 02:17, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Then 'Restore Default' for locations but this time click 'No' on choice
to move the files since you have already done so.


Thanks for your consideration, however, the only way out after clicking
'Restore Default' is to cancel everything, which puts it back as it was!!!!!

I'm running a WD drive test at the moment, it fails the Basic test after
a few seconds, it is running the Extended test at the moment. SMART data
looks OK though.

Guess it's time to get myself a new HDD, never hurts to have a spare anyway.


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Old August 31st 18, 05:26 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Reinstalled W10, Documents & Pictures , in wrong place.

Patrick wrote:
Hello everyone, I have just reinstalled W10 completly as it showed as
Unactivated and was crawling horibly.
The new Installation now shows as 'Digitally Activated''

Problem being;

'This PC/Documents' is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Documents'
'This PC/Pictures is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Pictures'
Please see; https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf6c9m10pu...oard0.jpg?dl=0

If I click on 'Restore Default' the entry changes to the required
location, BUT'
When I click 'OK' or 'Apply', I get (as expected) this;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg35zfr6ic...37.51.png?dl=0


Whatever I answer to above, I get this error;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7khiqn4qxl...39.26.png?dl=0


Video & Music are in the correct location.


Apparently this bug has been around since Windows 8.

As the thread progresses, the answers get closer to where they should
be. Still not a convenient solution, by any stretch of the imagination.
Initially, someone uses account tricks to try and step around the
problem, switching login to a local user and then switching
back to an MSA. Some of the other methods attempt registry
based fixes.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-1a973de0dd94

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/e...ures-onedrive/

What the Answers thread suggests, is this behavior works like
a "trap door". You can "move" a local user to MSA+OneDrive, but
if you then attempt to move them back, the two items
Documents and Pictures become "Access Denied" troublemakers.

Paul
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Old August 31st 18, 06:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Patrick[_9_]
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Default Reinstalled W10, Documents & Pictures , in wrong place.

On 31/08/2018 05:26, Paul wrote:
Patrick wrote:
Hello everyone, I have just reinstalled W10 completly as it showed as
Unactivated and was crawling horibly.
The new Installation now shows as 'Digitally Activated''

Problem being;

'This PC/Documents' is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Documents'
'This PC/Pictures is pointing to 'C:\Users\Patri\OneDrive\Pictures'
Please see; https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf6c9m10pu...oard0.jpg?dl=0

If I click on 'Restore Default' the entry changes to the required
location, BUT'
When I click 'OK' or 'Apply', I get (as expected) this;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg35zfr6ic...37.51.png?dl=0


Whatever I answer to above, I get this error;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7khiqn4qxl...39.26.png?dl=0


Video & Music are in the correct location.


Apparently this bug has been around since Windows 8.

As the thread progresses, the answers get closer to where they should
be. Still not a convenient solution, by any stretch of the imagination.
Initially, someone uses account tricks to try and step around the
problem, switching login to a local user and then switching
back to an MSA. Some of the other methods attempt registry
based fixes.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-1a973de0dd94


Following above, I went into the Registry, unwiitingly deleted
'OneDrive' from some of the funny number/name things at the top, then
saw the relevant entries (Pictures, Documents).
The problem now seems to be (more or less) fixed.
Thanks for your help.




https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/e...ures-onedrive/


What the Answers thread suggests, is this behavior works like
a "trap door". You can "move" a local user to MSA+OneDrive, but
if you then attempt to move them back, the two items
Documents and Pictures become "Access Denied" troublemakers.

Â*Â* Paul


 




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