FIX Can't Move The Folder Because There Is A Folder In The Same Location That Can't Be Redirected

[@glamorousvanity1137]

Thank you!! Out of all the videos I’ve watched you were the ONLY one to solve my sims 4 game. I was able to change the location from my hard drive to external drive with ability to play my mods. Months of frustration to a simple 1-3 clicks and done. THANK YOU!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@ind_avnish]

I want say. Same thankyou to you 🥳

[@meaningfulexchanges]

Omg Thank you so much. Had my drive for 6 months and tried everything. This made my day. Def have my follow

[@blame_paradise4564]

Saw another comment about it as well, I was getting the same error for moving my documents for my Sims 4 and could not figure out why. Your video is the one that came in clutch! Big thanks!

[@jamiewagner]

Glad I could help!

[@omnisciency]

Man you are an absolute saint, spent the better part of 3-4hours tinkering with this stuff even preforming a system restore that further borked my Desktop, but just disabling the syncing in the Manage Folder Backup worked like a charm and found no websites suggesting it for this issue. Thanks!

[@jamiewagner]

You are welcome! and thanks dude! be sure to share this video for me on those websites so people can find my video!! thanks man!!!!👍👍

[@suemp1114]

Thank you so much. I just bought a new computer and not only am I trying to get things onto that computer from the old one. I'm new to Windows 11 so I have a double whammy on this business. I just don't know what I would do without people like you on KZbin and people like you on Google. So many of these things are just a one-time shot and if it wasn't written somewhere I'd never remember. But thanks again!.

[@jamiewagner]

Welcome!!

[@cloud_222]

It won't let me do the same for the documents folder, though. I've stopped backing it up to OneDrive but when I ctrl x it then ctrl v into my user folder in the C drive, it says that it cannot move it since the folder or a file in it is open in another program. When I right-click the documents folder (in the OneDrive folder) and go to properties, it doesn't have a "location" section, so I can't restore to default location. What do I do? Thank you!

[@joshuajoseph6278]

I got the same problem. Found a solution?

[@cloud_222]

@joshuajoseph6278 Yep I fixed it but I honestly don't remember how. I think I went to the "location" tab in the properties of the documents folder in the user folder in the c drive (not the one in the OneDrive folder) and restored to default and then copy pasted the stuff in the documents folder in the OneDrive folder to the one in the user folder

[@nicholascummings5902]

Me too

[@jairayne]

@@cloud_222can you explain this again 😭😭 I’m so confused

[@jairayne]

@@cloud_222when I press the restore default the error still pops up

[@michaelalippold3471]

Thank you! Been struggling to do this and you are the first person to actually give the correct steps and it doesn't take forever!

[@jamiewagner]

That's great to hear. Please be sure to click the share button on this video that really helps out my channel so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone. Thanks!

[@benjamintherriault3824]

Thanks! I found that I needed to restart my PC after turning off the backups, soI could see the "location" tab

[@jamiewagner]

Awesome!! Appreciate the comment! Hit the like button!

[@sophialikescatz]

I was having the same issue, thanks!

[@nevinbochman4981]

When I changed the location, the documents folder was saved as a one-drive shortcut. I'm not sure how to fix this.

[@zhenyiaberry6912]

Same

[@Dovah_Slayer]

i had to manually drag and drop bits and pieces of the files from the shortcut into the new (old in my case) location as well as completely uninstall and reinstall steam (it still technically restored the default location but for some reason decided to not move the files) i then permanently unlinked one drive from my pc because FUCK THAT SHIT

[@hachiroku69]

This happened to me when I reinstalled windows 10 and can confirm that this also works on W10 for anyone wondering, thanks for the tutorial man

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome. I'm glad the video helped you out.

[@robschnautz1360]

Thanks, this was helpful! I told it to resume backing up Pictures and then to stop it again, and things are working correctly now.

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@joezano4473]

Thanks! The only adder for me was I needed to reboot after I changed the setting. None-the-less, I finally got the changes done thanks to the info you provided here. Many thanks!

[@jamiewagner]

Glad it helped!

[@khaicnguyen]

Thanks to your video, I now can move the Documents folder and Picture folder to my other drive besides OneDrive

[@jamiewagner]

You are so welcome! Please hit the share button on this video, that helps me to keep creating helpful tutorials like this for everyone!

[@colinsmith3093]

Thank you! I spent the better part of the day trying to resolve this. Reinstalling one drive after removing it can be a bit flakey, but can confirm that this works once you get that to work properly.

[@jamiewagner]

Thank you very much. Please share as many of my videos as you can. It helps my channel out so I can keep creating awesome tech videos for everyone.

[@firecloud42]

I don't get that menu for OneDrive...I get a normal Windows looking setting and can't find a "Sync and Backup" section

[@billg1313]

Thanks for your help. As others, I spend an hour trying to do this which I did change years ago. Your instructions was easy to understand and make the changes.

[@jamiewagner]

Glad it helped!! Share the video if you can!! It helps out my channel so I can keep uploading helpful tech videos! Thanks!

[@traviso4702]

I was struggling with this for a long time. Thanks for the assist!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@raven7947]

Thank you so much. You are a life saver! I was gifted a new laptop with windows 11 and would rather use the disk drive for default storage instead of Onedrive.

[@jamiewagner]

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[@zitko19]

Thanks a million. I was googling this and found several solutions non of wich worked. Your video finally helped and I am truly thankful :)

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@HamzaMahmood1261]

bro i am struggling with this problem from a lot of time but when i came across your video it just solved my problem

[@jamiewagner]

Awesome!!

[@scorpios_corz]

Thank you so much for this video, I had the same issue with my documents folder, they really need to get rid of OneDrive hijacking your personal folders or anything for that matter that restricts you like this over your own f'n files, I absolutely HATE OneDrive 🤬and wish it was never ever existed and needs to be an option not this BS where it takes control over your information on a non-operating systems drive

[@jamiewagner]

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[@NotTryHardXShorts]

Thank you! I’ve been facing this issue for a couple weeks. Reinstalled the game as well. But this worked!

[@jamiewagner]

No problem 👍Welcome ✌please share this video it helps my channel out so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone!

[@Solidier1]

Thank you very much Sir. One drive is really annoying as hell.

[@jamiewagner]

YEAH I agree with you!! it sure is! please share this video if you can it helps out my channel so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone!

[@kerseyfabs]

This is the easiest solution and it just works! Nice job and thank you!

[@jamiewagner]

🙌 welcome please share this video if you can, it helps out my channel so I can keep creating helpful content!

[@Mark_135]

Thanks very much. It worked. Simple method for fixing problem. Liked & Subscribed.

[@jamiewagner]

Awesome thanks for subscribing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KevinPoulsenFrndz]

I feel like I tried to do this and didn't work, but now it did after following your tutorial, I must've missed somethinig myself. Thanks a lot though!

[@jamiewagner]

Glad I could help!

[@gcidade]

Thanks a ton! Saved my day!! Microsoft never ceases annoying us with these stupid integrations that only make us lose time.

[@jamiewagner]

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[@RaksasaR]

This was very helpful, thank you! I followed your steps and that fixed it for me :)

[@jamiewagner]

Great to hear!

[@daxdawg1]

if its already un synced, just resync and then turn it off. check if file location has changed. i ran into this issue! otherwise, new gui, but works the same.

[@jamiewagner]

Awesome thanks for sharing this with everyone

[@SaraiBoddie]

Im trying this with the Documents folder and now that i unliked it , theres not location tab to move the document file can u help?

[@Keishatatum]

Same🤦🏻‍♀️

[@jamiewagner]

It has to be the main documents folder

[@hackkpo]

THANK YOU! This was driving me crazy

[@jamiewagner]

Glad it helped!

[@frankcarrano8002]

Well thats several hours of my life i wont get back but then I found this. Stupidly I had deleted one drive completely so after reinstalling which took some doing. All good now Cheers Buddy

[@jamiewagner]

Cheers to you as well!! Glad my video helped you out!!!!

[@phattso1659]

Unfortunately this does not seem to work on Win 10 Documents, when I turn OFF backup as shown, the view location option is no longer visible. I REALLY hate what Onedrive does, I did not give it the right to hijack my folders, backup yes, hijack so I have no control NO!

[@kungen3211]

Thank you!!! You helped me clen my c drive out of 18 gigs

[@jamiewagner]

Great! Thanks for commenting! Appreciate the engagement

[@joeschafer1]

Thank you! This was driving me nuts!

[@jamiewagner]

Welcome ✌please share this video it helps my channel out so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone!

[@eneleich373]

Thanks a lot, the helped me with a very bad Documents folder pointing to OneDrive

[@jamiewagner]

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[@cleverballoon6535]

I did this but now it didn't transfer all my pictures files over to the new drive it just added a couple onedrive shortcuts into the new pictures folder on my other drive

[@Dr_McDickerson]

I could kiss you for making this video man. I was about to snap my laptop in half trying to figure this out

[@jamiewagner]

😂 well thanks I'm glad I made the video too. If it helped you out, please hit that like button or subscribe or share the video for me. Thanks.

[@carnie69]

Odin's beard!!! I hate how Microsoft decides my setup for me. Thank you for this video!!!

[@sjoerdhoogendam7103]

great thanks! after unchecking backup, documents and pictures wend back to the normal C:\users\sjoerd\ folder. great thanks problem solved .

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@princessholyone]

Hey this is amazing, because I've looked at thousands of tutorials and websites and they were all BS hahah!! I've followed all of the steps carefully and they have all turned out well, just one thing is.... even though I have done this, for some reason its made an automatic kind of file saying "Shortcut to Documents (OneDrive-Pers..." as the pathway from the documents folder we made, that is now the documents folder, to get into the documents folder. IDK if that made sense at all, but like I've moved the documents folder to my hard drive all safely and correct, but then when I clock into the docs folder inside my hard drive, it brings up the one drive short cut, so I click in that, and then I am in my docs folder? Is there a way for it not to still be connected to my one drive? because even when I unlink my one drive after that, it wont even show me the contents in the folder, because I have had to click docs and click into that one drive short cut to get into it, even though I stopped backing them up at the start. PLEASE HELP!! or is it a me issue lol

[@jamiewagner]

So I think I know what your saying so at 4:07 on my video I went into microsoftone drive and into Manage folder backup, so in there you have to click on the documents one also and choose Stop Backup like I did for the pictures one, then reboot you PC and try and fix the documents folder that way because you should be able to get rid of that shortcut icon and just use the default documents main folder, I think that's what you mean, I hope this helps some, but you might have to link onedrive again like from the beginning so you can go in and make the changes and then you can just unlink it when your all done again, just remember to reboot your PC after making changes so the changes can take effect

[@em.wag765]

@@jamiewagnerI’m having the same problem and I did what u said but the problem is the documentst turns into a normal folder in my one drive rather then it being the paper logo it like creates the second folder file with all my stuff in it and then the document folder that I move to my hard drive is just a short cut to the actual document folder in my one drive idk if I made any sense

[@suskilo]

as others have mentioned, my documents has now turned into "Shortcut to Documents (OneDrive - Personal)". no clue how to fix this, restarted 2 times and nothings changed so..

[@drewhalloran9]

Did you fix it? I'm confused. Looks like I have no choice but to pay 2 dollars. I'm trying to do something and one drove keeps messing it up!!!!

[@jamiewagner]

You need to find your documents root folder. It's still there trust me you just need to find it. I'm not sure what exactly you did so it's hard to tell you exactly what to do

[@nathancatt3193]

Thanks this was driving me crazy!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@karlvaldezco5871]

Hi, I hope that you'll read this. I'm struggling with my Downloads folder. I accidentally moved it on my HDD or D. I can't seem to find it anymore. And cannot revert back to the original folder. No it's all messed up on my D folder. What should I do to restore it to C drive.

[@05teia]

Thank you so much man, i just restarted my computer because my storage is really messed up (my fault for only putting in a 260gb drive when I first built it) and I was sorting my storage onto other drives I now have in it and I was getting that error message

[@jamiewagner]

Welcome dude!

[@monikabarbosa7473]

I wish I'd seen this before having deleted the Onedrive...What do you suggest now? Even having deleted the folder one drive is still there and so are the desktop, pictures, and documents... what should I do? re-install one drive?

[@jamiewagner]

yes you can reinstall one drive that's what I would do then you can do this video and it should help

[@monikabarbosa7473]

@@jamiewagner thanks for replying! I will try and let you know.

[@gingerbread7107]

@@monikabarbosa7473did it work

[@Tabula.rasa.abracadavra]

You are a life saver fam! Thank you!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@mlaallday]

Thank you so much! I've been dealing with this issue for MONTHS lmao

[@jamiewagner]

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[@ferdiansyahseptiawanasnawi6878]

I had a slightly different problem than this This is how it happened, I went into my pictures properties, to location tab, when changing it, it went back to previous parent folder, where my default user profiles were saved, I thought pictures would be saved with these folders, little did I know, it made my user profile my pictures folder and now I have searched the whole internet trying to find a solution but can't. Now my pictures and user profile folder which you access by going into C/Users/Administrator, are both the same. By user profile i mean administrator. Do you have any solution for this problem?

[@jamiewagner]

Sorry for late response and I’m not sure about that one, you might need to go on your user account and make the default again to get back to default settings

[@kenshirotoki9339]

Thank you! That's a big help!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@ahmadlulu-i5937]

thankyou it is working to my folder thank a lot

[@jamiewagner]

Awesome!!! please share the video if you can. It really helps out my channel so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone.

[@lofiunplugged]

Thank You!! It's working.

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@demogod4955]

once Ive changed the location of pictures/documents or what have you and copied the files to the folder I wish to use can I delete everything from the old location with no negative effects? I'm asking cause the whole reason I'm here is to get crap other than the OS off my C drive.

[@kunalsoni7681]

It worked 💯🤝✅ thanks for sharing

[@jamiewagner]

No problem 👍 please hit the share button! It really helps out my channel thanks!

[@EmiGamez174]

Thank you so much, no more stress :)

[@jamiewagner]

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[@nixon2679]

I don’t have one drive on my taskbar

[@jamiewagner]

You can search for OneDrive in the search menu

[@roguephoenix]

thanks so much. i was getting frustrated.

[@jamiewagner]

Thanks! Appreciate the comment! Hit the like button!

[@maradesu]

GOD BLESS YOU!!!! Thank you!

[@jamiewagner]

Thank you!!!! Please be sure to share this video If you can It really helps out my channel so I can keep creating helpful content for everyone have a good one 👍

[@LionelSchmitt-c3c]

Thanks! It worked!

[@jamiewagner]

Welcome 🙏 please hit the share button It really helps out my channel!

[@calityyy1496]

I can't see the location tab somehow after doing it, everytime i click on it, the location tab is gone :(

[@dougbfresh]

You need to click on the original folder and not the shortcut.

[@Z64sports]

How do you fix this with the documents folder on Windows 10?

[@KateStones]

Thank you very much!

[@jamiewagner]

Welcome 🙏 please hit the share button It really helps out my channel!

[@makingtechfriendly]

Clicking on stop backup will delete all the data that hasn't been backed up. Just lost all of mine, save yours.

[@jamiewagner]

Thanks for sharing this with everyone

[@petehelme7714]

can concur, I recently lost the contents of Documents and Pictures after unchecking Backup. this happened to me after doing a Laplink PCMover session to a new laptop, where the old one had local Doc & Pic folders. I stupidly ignored all the warnings PCMover game me about this before starting the transfer :). it's smart enough to know that it'll be moving files to OneDrive directories. they give one the option of making a local folder instead.

[@gendarmyy7586]

When I tried this with my documents (because I had way too many things and I wanted to put them on another disk), it told me that I have deleted 492 files, which kinda scared me so I asked it to re-back up my files but now it tells me that I don't have enough space and that I'm 168% over the limit? Which makes me wonder how was it handling all the documents before if its too much now? Also it doesn't let me back up the "my documents" folder again. Did I do something wrong in the process? Where are all my files in my documents? Need help thank you

[@jamiewagner]

Like you said how the heck was it working before but now it's telling you something different? I think they just want to get people to pay for more storage and I feel like it's pushed on us, for your situation it sounds like your documents are still backed up but your just gonna have to figure out that storage issue to restore restore them, not sure what's up with that, I would have to look into it more and for you to get your storage back you may need to clean up your system and safely delete unwanted things so you can have enough storage to restore them, your right it's weird that it would do that after they were already on there, like why did the storage change so much?

[@gendarmyy7586]

@@jamiewagner I partially understood what happened, basically the deleted files I believe were only the backups and not the main files so they're still all here, but that doesn't explain the fact that I still can't back up altough it was already backed up before. Also, all my document files are now located in a different "my documents" folder than the main one on the disk, which makes it impossible to change the location of them. All of that is pretty weird 🤔

[@karanveerseniarey7223]

thank you, it helps me a lot.

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@kannan9981]

I deleted defalt folders permanently and onedrive folder.i can't resolve the problem for a month 😢😭😭 Now i can't have any backup.what do i do to restore

[@jamiewagner]

It depends on how bad it is you might have to restore your computer, so it restores those default folders

[@madstayy]

you legend!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@XiroNyakuya]

I don't even have onedrive installed (I uninstalled it as soon as I installed win11), so why the hell this trashy buggy OS won't allow me to move the folder?. There is nothing using it, the folder is literally empty (I already moved all the content that It had). Wtf windows

[@diegoBG74]

same, did you fix it?

[@street55789]

I unlinked and uninstalled onedrive, am getting this error, but cannot for the life of me reinstall onedrive to be able to do what you're showing her. Any idea how to get onedrive back?

[@HolyCrusaderGrim]

got the same issue lmao, you ever fix it?

[@street55789]

@@HolyCrusaderGrim no, I wasn’t able to. Despite onedrive’s persistence in reminding me it is there, it wants me to PAY to redownload it. Sigh. I just gave up. *%^+ windows 11. lol

[@street55789]

@@HolyCrusaderGrim great user name by the way :)

[@HolyCrusaderGrim]

@@street55789 tyty, i had to bite the bullet and just reinstall it with the above tutorial still not working

[@dai4358]

u saved my life. thanks so much

[@jamiewagner]

No problem! Please hit the share button on the video! Thanks!!

[@zer_5764]

Thank you! It worked for me too

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@roseybrown5086]

Thank you so much now i can play sims on my external drive

[@jamiewagner]

Glad I could help

[@jarednorris9559]

The location option is missing from the documents when i click properties. And worse i cant get into the settings for one drive, there is no little one drive icon in the bottom right to right click on... Tried settings in one drive itself but get no options to stop the sinking of the documents folder. I just want to change the documents folder out of one drive. Ive done everything i possibly can think to do, ive been trying for over two months now. I feel broken and hopeless. Please can amyone help me.. please i dont know whay else to do

[@carlosalas6358]

In my case is the videos folder but is not backed up on one drive

[@danlfuller3613]

You're a lifesaver!!

[@jamiewagner]

Thank you!👍 glad it helped you out!

[@xtremeideaz]

Thanks. working September 2023

[@jamiewagner]

You're welcome!

[@dougbfresh]

Great video and wild decision by MS and TERRIBLE error message.

[@jamiewagner]

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[@Flash_AU]

thank you for the help. i now have 256gb of photos to transfer from the cloud onto my physical storage ☠☠

[@jamiewagner]

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[@Twinilluminati]

Mine wasn’t connected to one drive and it’s still not working

[@The_Spooky_Boi]

This didnt excatly work for me but thanks to ur tiutorial I was able to open tht up and just unlink onedrive as a whole

[@kenj_3436]

This video saved me from dessert of hell

[@jamiewagner]

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[@OmedTravelsGambia]

Thank you so much brother you are the savior

[@jamiewagner]

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[@SnoWolf2801]

MATE!!! thank you very much ... u really help me 😭😭

[@jamiewagner]

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[@Keishatatum]

Omg it worked!!! Thank you sm

[@jamiewagner]

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[@thanosaias2717]

The moment I stop the monitoring from onedrive the option for MOVE location is gone from the folder

[@jamiewagner]

You need to click on the main root folder of that folder to find it. I know what your saying because it did that to me

[@SpyPap]

Not working. One Drive back up was disabled for Pictures anyway.

[@OthmanAlikhan]

Thanks for the video =)

[@jamiewagner]

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[@Borderline0]

You're a fken lifesaver hahaha i was so frustrated with onedrive

[@jamiewagner]

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[@sparky5777]

That was a good trick. Thank you

[@jamiewagner]

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[@Ziomblo]

Thank you so much

[@jamiewagner]

You're most welcome

[@josephebenezen8056]

Thank you

[@jamiewagner]

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[@b9bot148]

I don't have OneDrive installed why has it taken over my documents folder?

[@AlvinBrinson]

The fix involved reinstalling OneDrive???

[@jamiewagner]

you could try it that but it will probably want to do the same thing again causing the same problem

[@EdwinRiosSanchez84]

Thanks!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@xxsouradrianxx6208]

The thing is it wont let me move it, like it doesnt have a location

[@jamiewagner]

Make sure to right click on the main folder not a shortcut one like for example the actual main documents or music or pictures folder

[@aliviah7731]

I did all of this but now I can't see the location of my documents folder

[@jamiewagner]

You can always search for it using windows explorer

[@GS_Lexus]

Thank you!!!!!

[@jamiewagner]

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[@shushuyu]

thank you. 🤗

[@jamiewagner]

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[@bilautara]

Thank you so much dude

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[@عبدالملكجوبح-ي9ه]

Think you very very much.

[@jamiewagner]

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[@YasinduSandeepa]

thanks

[@jamiewagner]

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