If you want to restore the default locations, the steps below will show you how to do that with just a few clicks. When you change the default location or redirect a folder in your home directory, the folder and content will be redirected to the new location, but access will still be as if the folder wasn’t redirected or changed. Changing or redirecting a home folder is useful in cases where you’re running out of storage space on a partition and want to use a larger partition to store new content. If you followed our previous posts and change the default locations of your folders, you can restore them using the steps below.
How to restore the default location of a personal folder in Windows 11
As mentioned above, one can change or redirect the default location of a personal folder in your home directory. When you do redirect, and you want to restore the previous location, use the steps below to do that. First, open File Explorer from the Taskbar. When File Explorer opens, type copy and paste shell: UsersFilesFolder into the address bar, and press. You should see similar folder content as the one below. This will show all your folders. For example, if you previously change or redirected a folder’s default location, right-click that particular folder, then select Properties. On the folder Properties windows, under Location, click the Restore Default as highlighted below. When you do that, Windows 11 prompts you to confirm that you want to change the location, click Yes. After a few moments, the folder should be restored to its default location. That’s should do it! Conclusion: This post showed you how to restore a folder in your home directory to its default location. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
