Windows 10: Accidentally dragged Pictures folder into Videos. How to fix?

I'm on Win11 and my libraries folders are all messed up.Things I've tried:- Restore default libraries- Checking "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" in RegEdit.I don't find any duplicate "My Pictures" or "My Music" folders with a path set to being under my videos folder. I might have also deleted them I can't remember.I'd post a screenshot but I'm getting a failed to upload error on multiple browsers.

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Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

I've accidentally replaced my User folder with my Pictures folder

Yes I do remember that warning message, I don't know why I chose to ignore that. Bree described the course of events correctly, I believe I selected inside the c:\users\reece folder expecting it to put my Pictures folder there, not realising that it infact required me to create a folder inside c:\users\reece called Pictures and then select that folder first.

C:\Users\reece\Pictures and C:\Users\Pictures\Pictures are both identical with the same contents, and after just doing my first WinKey+PrntScrn the Screenshots folder appears in both of those locations.

C:\users\reece looks like this




while C:\users\pictures looks like this




The only difference I can tell is that C:\users\reece contains the Videos folder that is correctly linked from my D: drive and is a vertical list, whereas C:\users\pictures doesn't and is a horizontal list.

EDIT: Fixed attachments, they broke because i changed pages while typing the quick reply which must have broken the attachments

 

This PC, Pictures and Video Folder issue


I have recently looked at the folders in "This PC" where you have pictures, music, , documents, etc. The label for both the Video folder and Picture folder is both "Pictures". The location in properties show both linked to the physical pictures location on my drive (D:"account"\pictures). So I have two questions:

1. How to rename these two icons to make one Pictures and the Videos?
2. How to fix the issue where updating one with the location changes the other?

I am attaching a picture showing what I am currently seeing.