Windows 10 redirect downloads folder

Hello, I have ran into a strange issue and thus far VMware support has been unable to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any idea what I can look at or something I can try to resolve this issue? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Hi JonAmadori , What type of Windows profile is being used, and how was that created? Thank you for the help in finding what I overlooked. Hi JonAmadori , Thank you for reporting back, and happy to hear you found the issue. By default, Windows allocates the Downloads folder to the system drive usually the C drive and enables users to save the downloaded items to it.

However, it's available to relocate the Windows 10 Downloads folder and you can follow this post to move Downloads folder From C Drive to D drive or another drive in Windows Head to the partition where you want to store the moved Downloads folder and here we will access D drive.

We redirect all folders possible through GP. Got a weird issue with the Downloads folder on Windows 10 though.

Weirdly, event viewer shows it as directing successfully, but the Location tab and registry shows the local folder. If I change the registry to be the network share, the Location tab updates, but it still wants to use local folder when clicking it under 'This PC'.

But even after the manual change in registry, we still get the same error as the first image attached here. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. Complete re-install of Windows 10 Clean roaming profile Clean redirected folders All of the above at once. Interestingly it stopped working when I installed the Anniversary update. Interestingly, the 'default' registry values stay as the local path, but an additional has been cretaed:.

Office Office Exchange Server. I, too, usually refer to a not-so-robust implementation to be the "naive approach. MrVillager 10 MrVillager 10 6 2 2 bronze badges. After Downloads put a slash then the file name and then the extension.

Jacob, if he had done that, why would he be asking this question? They might not have done it personally, but the script might be deployed to an environment where the downloads folder is in a different location, in which case it will fail due to a false assumption.

Although I think this is an XY problem , because checking if a file exists by downloading something with the same name doesn't seem like a sound approach, especially as an anti-piracy method. It just doesn't yet, which is weird since known folders were added way back in Vista. Show 5 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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