Windows 10: Accidentally moved "Pictures" to D:\ instead of a folder in it

My C:\ drive was getting full as I was backing up my pictures from a gadget so I decided to move the location to somewhere in D:\. I felt comfortable doing it because I thought I knew how to do it from an experience, so I already created a folder in D:\. However, it turned out I didn't move Pictures to the folder, instead to D:\ itself. I accidentally chose D:\ to become Pictures.I tried undoing it but there's this folder in D:\ called Config.Msi that prevented to move Pictures back. I tried using ChatGPT and so far I could already edit the registry values. Now the "Pictures" under "This PC" i

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Pictures Folder Accidentally Remapped to D:\

[UPDATE]

I remapped the Pictures folder to C:\Users\[username]\Pictures even though the Pictures folder didn't exist, chose not to have my files automatically moved, then remapped it a second time to my intended destination at D:\Pictures. The folder name was then reverted
back to Pictures and any relation to the D drive was removed!

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Hello all,

I recently re-installed Windows and was in the process of mapping the media libraries listed under This PC from C drive to my D drive when under Pictures, I accidentally selected D:/ in the Select a Destination GUI. I had selected my existing Pictures folder
yet it selected the entire D drive. It now behaves like the actual D drive when I right-click on the Pictures folder under This PC and select Properties, except the Location tab is still there. When I attempt to remap the folder to D:\Pictures, a dialog box
appears, telling me that the specified path is invalid. When I try to remap the folder to C:\Users\[username]\Pictures in an attempt to troubleshoot, there is no Pictures folder there yet when I create a New Folder and rename it to Pictures, I'm told that
a Pictures folder exists. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Accidentally moved Documents files to D:\ path

Hi Hitman106,

1. Open This PC, right-click on the Documents folder and click Properties
   
2. In the Location tab, click the Restore Default button.
   
3. Choose No when you see the “Do you want to move all the files from the old location” prompt.
   
4. Click OK.
   
5. Move the documents/files manually from d:\ to the default location (C:\Users\Ken\Documents)
   

See:

Fix: Accidentally Moved Videos or other Shell folders to D:\ root

 

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.