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Old August 31st 20, 03:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Philip Herlihy
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Default 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?

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Phil, London
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