Assigned library to drive letter, how do I fix this

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Kratos119

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So basically, I cloned a hard drive and wanted to move some stuff around. I wanted to move the location of my pictures to another HDD from the old one. I went into location, and meant to set the location to a folder in my F: drive, but instead assigned it to the F: drive itself. Now, the picture library acts like a hard drive instead of a folder, and when I try to reassign the location of the picture library I get, "Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "F:\System Volume Information". Access is denied. I can't restore the default location either. It doesn't really break anything, it's just really annoying. I tried to reassign the drive letter to try to then reassign the location, because I figured the path would be broken allowing me to change it. Instead, it won't let me do anything at all it just says it's gone. Any thoughts?
 
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Are there other folders on the "F:\" - possibly ones that you don't have permission to access? (security settings)? You might need to take ownership of all folders on the drive before trying to switch. I have never encountered this before.....
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Are there other folders on the "F:\" - possibly ones that you don't have permission to access? (security settings)? You might need to take ownership of all folders on the drive before trying to switch. I have never encountered this before.....
 
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ronintexas

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Do you have Windows 7? You can edit the system registry and change the location manually here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\personal (the value needs to be changed from F:\ to F:\Users\Photos (or something similar)).

Windows 8 is here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
 
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