Move or restore location of personal folders in Windows 11

Suppose you almost you run out of storage space and you want your personal folders move to another location or you have already moved your folder to another drive and now want to return it to its original place. In that case, this tip will help you.

Windows 11 allows you to change the default location of personal folders (such as Desktop, Pictures, Downloads, Documents, etc.) to a new location.

Using a similar process, you can restore the personal folders to their original location. I will explain both methods to you, how to move your personal folders to a new place and then how to restore them to their original place.

When you change the default location, the folder and its contents are moved to the new location, but you can still access them as you did before.

Move or restore location of personal folders in Windows 11

As said above, moving the default location of personal folders in Windows 11 will also move its contents to the new desired location. However, you can still access it as you did before.

If you run out of storage space or for another reason want to move your Windows 11 personal folders to another location, you can do this as follows.

Move location of personal folders

Right-click on the start button. Click Run in the menu. In the run window type:

shell:UsersFilesFolder

Right-click on the folder whose contents you want to move to another location. For example in the “Documents” folder. Then click Properties in the menu.

Then click on the Location tab and click on the move button. Select a new location and confirm with OK.

Repeat this process for all folders whose contents you wish to move.

Restore location of personal folders

To move the contents of the personal folders back to their original location, you can restore the folder contents.

Right-click on the start button. Click Run in the menu. In the run window type:

shell:UsersFilesFolder

Right-click on the folder whose contents you want to move to the default location. For example in the “Documents” folder. Then click Properties in the menu.

Click the Location tab and then click the Restore Defaults button. The contents are now restored to the user folder in Windows 11.

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I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!