Windows 10: I accidently shifted my download folder location to my D drive and now could not restore...

I shifted my downloads by relocating it but accidentally shifted it to D drive. Now my D Drive folder and download folder are the same and when i click on properties it shows the properties of the D Drive folder and I cannot restore its location.Pls help,

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Changed Downloads Folder to my D drive by accident without creating a downloads folder

Hello,

My C drive was almost full so i decided to change the location to my 1Tb D drive but forgot to create a download folder, now all my downloads are in my d drive in disorder and its making me lose my mind. When i try to restore the original Download folder
it says access denied.

 

Unable to restore original downloads folder location

Dear community,

I have a new Windows 8 computer.

The hard drive is separated in two, OS (C and DATA (D and I realised that all my files were being stored in drive C:

I read online that you could modify where folders like 'My documents' are stored by clicking Properties and change the location to the other disk.

I did it for the Documents folders and everything was fine, I now had a Documents folder in my D: drive.

Then, I did the same with my Downloads folder, and selected the location D:\

After this I realised that my D: drive and the Downloads folder had completely merged !!

Which meant, when I was going to my DATA (D I could find all my downloads as well as my Documents folder.

All the same, when I was clicking on Downloads, my Documents folder was in it!

So I clicked on Downloads and tried to restore default location but I got the error message that it was impossible to "create sub-lists under D: System Volume Information. Access Denied". I tried to input the location manually but the same occurred.

Now, my Downloads folder has changed name, it is called D:\ and my DATA (D drive says in the Location tab that its default location is in C:/Users/Downloads

I don't understand why this happened and surely this can't be very good for the good functioning of my PC...

Could I restore my system to just before it happened even though I never 'saved' my computer?

Otherwise, what can I do to fix this?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Khan

 

Downloads folder is the Documents folder

Hi Chris,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to Restore to Default the folders and document settings and see if it helps.

Step 1:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Download folder.
• Right click on the Download Folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

Step 2:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Documents folder.
• Right click on the Document folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

After performing above steps change the settings as you required and check if it helps.

Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.