Weird icon in tree

[raphaelmsx]

...and if I open it shows nothing.

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[admin]

This is a color filter with a distinctive shape, apparently applied to a no-name folder. You can see the kind of the filter in the file info tip if you tick "Color Filters" in Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show file info tips | Select Extra Fields.... Let me know, it will help to find out where that ghost folder comes from.

PS: It reminds me of situations where users manually moved their Download folder to some invalid location.

[raphaelmsx]

You're right, since I don't use the default downloads folder, I simply deleted it.

The color filters are already enabled, I didn't understand what you've said, what should I do?

[admin]

I can't say it any better. Read it again.

PS: You can hide the Download folder here: Configuration | General | Tree and List | Items in Tree and List | Select Items...

[raphaelmsx]

hmm, and If I want to configure this downloads link in the tree to another location, is it possible?

[admin]

The Download folder is a special system folder owned by Windows. If you want your own special folders you can use the Rapid Access section of the tree.

[raphaelmsx]

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[raphaelmsx]

Well, I restored the original documents folder, and it's showing alright in the tree.

It was working fine until I rebooted, now the ghost folder with that icon appeared again, documents it's still there, if I click on documents on the tree, it shows the files/folders on the right pane (which are on onedrive), but if I double-click on any, if it's a folder it shows "location currently not available", and if it's a file, either nothing happens, or the associated program opens but cannot load the file.

It's redirecting to "c:\documents\" which does not exist.

Oh, onedrive is working fine, it's working on windows explorer.

I don't even know if I did something, but, can you help me? Thanks in advance.

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[admin]

Something is a little off with your Windows. I would look for "c:\documents\" in the registry.

Wait, you moved your Documents folder to OneDrive?! Wow. Bold level of trust.

[raphaelmsx]

Something is a little off with your Windows. I would look for "c:\documents\" in the registry.

Wait, you moved your Documents folder to OneDrive?! Wow. Bold level of trust.

Regedit couldn't find "c:\documents" anywhere.

I use OneDrive since it was still SkyDrive almost 20 years ago, never had any problem. But I sill have backup of what's in there... and backup of the backup...

This is a fresh Windows 10 installation, I will explain it:

My motherboard doesn't have TPM, and I wanted to upgrade to Win11, so I installed it bypassing TPM check, but it was giving a lot of BSOD, so I reverted back to Win10.

I never bothered with those folders (local documents/downloads/music/etc), really never used, I use another raid storage for all the important stuff, and the not too much important stuff on onedrive (and to access those files outside my home), but I simply tried to get rid of them this time (the local always empty folders), and created all this mess...

[admin]

What is returned by these scripts?

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echo pathreal("Documents");

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echo pathreal("OneDrive");

[raphaelmsx]

What is returned by these scripts?

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echo pathreal("Documents");

C:\Users\raphael\OneDrive\Documents

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echo pathreal("OneDrive");

OneDrive

[admin]

Hm.

You never did what I suggested in my first post. It would have helped.

[raphaelmsx]

The color filters? I'm sorry if I didn't wrote here, but in fact I did, and it was already all enabled (color filters, extrafields)

[admin]

Read it again. I made bold what's important.