您是否听说过“用户文件夹”一词，是否想知道这些文件夹是什么？您知道在 Windows 10 计算机或设备上的何处可以找到它们吗？在本文中，我们将解释下载(Downloads)、文档(Documents)或音乐(Music)等用户文件夹是什么。然后，我们还将向您展示如何更改Windows 10中的每个用户文件夹位置。因此，如果您想知道诸如“如何更改我的文档(Documents )位置？”之类的问题的答案。或者需要了解如何更改 Windows 中下载(Downloads)文件夹的位置，请继续阅读：
Windows 10 中有哪些用户文件夹
所有现代版本的Windows都会在(Windows)“C:\Users\User name.”下为每个用户帐户创建一组用户文件夹。该系列包括：
- 3D 对象(3D Objects)- 包含适用于Paint 3D或混合现实门户等应用程序的 3D 文件(Mixed Reality Portal)
- 联系人(Contacts)- 如果您使用过时的Windows 联系人(Windows Contacts)，这是存储有关您的联系人的所有数据的文件夹。每个联系人都有自己的文件，扩展名为“.contact”。
- 桌面(Desktop)- 这是您的桌面，包含您添加到其中的快捷方式、文件和文件夹。
- 下载(Downloads)- 如果您没有在默认 Web 浏览器中设置其他位置，这是从 Internet 下载文件的默认文件夹。
- 收藏夹(Favorites)- 是存储所有Internet Explorer收藏夹的文件夹。
- 文档(Documents)- 这是默认存储文档的文件夹。
- 链接(Links )- 用于存储来自Windows 7中的Windows Explorer的(Windows Explorer )收藏夹(Favorites )部分和Windows 8.1中的文件资源管理(File Explorer )器的快捷方式。Windows 10不再使用此文件夹，即使它仍位于您的用户文件夹中。
- 图片(Pictures)- 是默认存储所有图像的文件夹。
- 音乐(Music)- 是默认存储所有音乐的文件夹。
- 视频(Videos)- 是默认保存所有视频的文件夹。
- OneDrive - 如果您使用 Microsoft 的OneDrive云(Microsoft)存储服务(OneDrive cloud storage service)，这里就是您存储 OneDrive 文件的位置。
- 已保存游戏(Saved Games)- 与Windows 10集成的所有游戏保存您的游戏数据的文件夹，以便您可以从上次保存的游戏继续玩。但是，大多数游戏不使用此文件夹来存储存档，即使它们应该使用。
- 搜索(Searches )- 这是Windows 10存储您保存以供以后使用的所有搜索的地方。
Windows 10 中的用户文件夹
Windows 10中用户文件夹的位置是什么
查找用户文件夹完整列表的最佳方法是：
- 打开文件资源管理器(Open File Explorer)- 一种快速的方法是同时按键盘上的Win + E文件资源管理器(File Explorer)按钮
- 导航到安装 Windows 10 的驱动器：它通常是“C:”驱动器。
- 通过双击或双击打开用户文件夹，然后打开您的用户帐户文件夹。(Users)例如，我们的一个用户帐户名为Digital Citizen，Windows 10安装在“C:”驱动器上。因此我们浏览到“C:UsersDigital Citizen ”。
Windows 10中的用户帐户文件夹
与早期版本的Windows操作系统相比， Windows 10的一项改进是它可以轻松访问一些最常见的用户文件夹。如果您打开文件资源管理器(File Explorer )并转到这台电脑(This PC)，您应该会找到所有这些用户文件夹的快捷方式：桌面、文档、下载、音乐、图片(Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures)和视频(Videos)。
Windows 10 的文件资源管理器(File Explorer)提供了一种访问常用用户文件夹的简便方法
如您所见，它们并不都是您的用户文件夹，只是您更有可能经常使用的文件夹。
如何更改Windows 10中的用户文件夹位置（文档、下载(Downloads)、音乐(Music)等）
更改所有这些用户文件夹的位置是可能的，您可以使用相同的过程来完成。为了说明此过程，我们将使用“下载(Downloads)”文件夹作为示例，并向您展示如何将其移动到另一个位置，以便您的 Web 浏览器将您下载的文件保存在那里，而不是Windows 10设置的位置。
打开文件资源管理器(File Explorer)并转到用户的主文件夹。右键单击或按住要移动到新位置的文件夹，然后选择Properties。
打开用户文件夹的属性(Properties)
您还可以使用文件资源管理器(File Explorer)中的功能区。选择要移动的文件夹，然后转到主页(Home)选项卡并单击或点击属性(Properties)。
使用文件资源管理器(File Explorer)的功能区菜单打开用户文件夹的属性(Properties)
在所选文件夹的“属性(Properties)”窗口中，转到“位置(Location)”选项卡。在那里，您可以查看其在计算机上的当前位置。单击(Click)或点击移动(Move)。
如何在Windows 10中更改“(Windows 10)下载(Downloads)”文件夹的位置
出现一个名为“选择目的地”(“Select a Destination”)的新窗口。
浏览(Browse)到要移动文件夹的新位置，然后单击或点击选择文件夹(Select Folder)。
选择新的用户文件夹位置
新位置现在显示在位置(Location)选项卡中。要应用更改，请单击或点击确定(OK)。
Windows 10 移动用户文件夹
系统会询问您是否要将所有现有文件从旧位置移动到新位置。我们建议您单击或点击是(Yes)，以便移动所有内容，并且您在查找保存在旧位置的旧文件时不会遇到问题。
将(Move)所有文件从用户文件夹移动到新位置
在旧位置找到的文件现在被移过来。该过程结束后，您就完成了将所选用户文件夹移动到新位置的过程。
注意这个错误：不要将用户文件夹移动到另一个用户文件夹中！
运行移动操作时，请避免我们在失败的实验中犯的这个错误：我们要求Windows 10将下载(Downloads)文件夹移动到桌面(Desktop)。当我们这样做时，Windows 10 警告我们即将将“下载(Downloads)”用户文件夹移动到另一个用户文件夹中。这意味着从现在开始， Windows 10不再能够将这两个位置分开，从而导致使用Desktop和Downloads用户文件夹的用户和应用程序混淆。
不要将用户文件夹移动到另一个用户文件夹中！
如果您收到类似的警告，请在询问您是否确定要继续文件夹重定向并选择其他位置时按否。(No)我们按下是，(Yes,)我们最终得到了一个混乱的系统，其中Downloads用户文件夹指向与(Downloads )Desktop相同的位置。我们实际上没有简单的方法来分离这两个文件夹，而且下载(Downloads)文件夹甚至没有在文件资源管理器(File Explorer)中列出。
这里的教训如下：移动用户文件夹的位置时，不要使用另一个用户文件夹使用的位置。确保(Make)将其移动到其他用户文件夹未使用的位置。
您(Did)是否更改了 Windows 10 PC 上的用户文件夹位置？
如您所见，在Windows 10中，您可以轻松地将用户文件夹移动到任何您想要的位置。无论(Regardless)您是想知道如何更改Documents位置，还是更改Windows 10中(Windows 10)Downloads文件夹的位置，现在您都知道该怎么做了。我们的建议是将这些文件夹移动到Windows 10未使用的分区(Windows 10)这样，如果您的系统崩溃，他们受到可能重新安装操作系统的影响的机会就会减少。此外，如果您使用的是固态驱动器，移动用户文件夹可能会帮助您为需要快速驱动器的应用和游戏节省宝贵的存储空间。将下载和文档存储在较慢的驱动器上应该不是问题。
How to change user folder locations in Windows 10 (Documents, Downloads, etc.) -
Have you heаrd the term “user folders,” and did you wonder what these folders are? Do you know where to find them on your Windows 10 computer or device? In this article, we explain what user folders such as Downloads, Documents, or Music are. Then, we’re also going to show you how to change each user folder location in Windows 10. So, if you want to know the answer to a question such as “how to change my Documents location?” or need to find out how to change the location of Downloads folder in Windows, read on:
What user folders are in Windows 10
All modern editions of Windows create a collection of user folders for each user account, under “C:\Users\User name.” The collection includes:
- 3D Objects - contains 3D files for apps such as Paint 3D or Mixed Reality Portal
- Contacts - if you are using the dated Windows Contacts, this is the folder where all the data about your contacts are stored. Each contact has its own file, with the extension ".contact.”
- Desktop - this is your desktop, containing the shortcuts, files, and folders you have added to it.
- Downloads - this is the default folder where files are downloaded from the internet if you did not set another location in your default web browser.
- Favorites - is the folder where all Internet Explorer favorites are stored.
- Documents - this is the folder where your documents are stored by default.
- Links – is used to store the shortcuts from the Favorites section of Windows Explorer in Windows 7 and File Explorer in Windows 8.1. This folder is no longer used by Windows 10, even though it’s still found in your user folder.
- Pictures - is the folder where all images are stored by default.
- Music - is the folder where all music is stored by default.
- Videos - is the folder where all videos are kept by default.
- OneDrive - if you are using the OneDrive cloud storage service from Microsoft, this is where your OneDrive files are stored.
- Saved Games - the folder where all games that are integrated with Windows 10 save your gaming data so that you can resume playing from your last saved game. However, most games do not use this folder to store saves, even though they should.
- Searches - this is where Windows 10 stores all the searches you save for later use.
User folders in Windows 10
What’s the location of user folders in Windows 10
The best way to find the complete list of user folders is this:
- Open File Explorer - a quick way to do it is to simultaneously press Win + E on your keyboard, or press the File Explorer button on the taskbar
- Navigate to the drive where you installed Windows 10: it’s usually the “C:” drive.
- Open the Users folder and then your user account’s folder by double-clicking or double-tapping on them. For example, one of our user accounts is named Digital Citizen, and Windows 10 is installed on the “C:” drive. Therefore we browsed to “C:\Users\Digital Citizen.”
A user account folder from Windows 10
One improvement in Windows 10 compared to earlier versions of Windows operating systems is that it offers easy access to some of the most common user folders. If you open File Explorer and go to This PC, you should find shortcuts for all these user folders: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos.
Windows 10's File Explorer offers an easy way to access common user folders
As you can see, they are not all your user folders, just the ones you are more likely to use regularly.
How to change user folder locations in Windows 10 (Documents, Downloads, Music, etc.)
Changing the location of all these user folders is possible, and you can do it using the same procedure. To illustrate this procedure, we’re going to use the Downloads folder as an example and show you how to move it to another location so that your web browser saves the files you download there and not at the location set by Windows 10.
Open File Explorer and go to your user’s main folder. Right-click or press-and-hold the folder that you want to move to a new location and select Properties.
Opening the Properties of a user folder
You can also use the ribbon from File Explorer. Select the folder you want to move, and then go to the Home tab and click or tap Properties.
Opening the Properties of a user folder using File Explorer's ribbon menu
In the Properties window for the selected folder, go to the Location tab. There, you can view its current location on your computer. Click or tap Move.
How to change the location of the Downloads folder in Windows 10
A new window named “Select a Destination” shows up.
Browse to the new location where you want the folder to be moved and click or tap Select Folder.
Choosing the new user folder location
The new location is now shown in the Location tab. To apply the change, click or tap OK.
Windows 10 move user folder
You are asked if you want to move all the existing files from the old location to the new one. We recommend that you click or tap Yes so that everything is moved and you don’t have issues finding old files that are kept in the old location.
Move all the files from the user folder to the new location
The files found at the old location are now moved over. Once the process ends, you are done moving the selected user folder to a new location.
Watch out for this mistake: Don’t move a user folder into another user folder!
When running a move operation, avoid this mistake we made in one of our failed experiments: we asked Windows 10 to move the Downloads folder to the Desktop. When we did this, Windows 10 warned us that we were about to move the Downloads user folder into another user folder. This means that Windows 10, from now on, is no longer able to separate the two locations causing confusion for users and applications using the Desktop and Downloads user folders.
Don't move a user folder into another user folder!
If you receive a similar warning, press No when asked if you are sure you want to proceed with the folder redirection and choose another location. We pressed Yes, and we ended up with a messed up system where the Downloads user folder was pointing to the same location as Desktop. We practically had no easy way of separating the two folders, and the Downloads folder was not even listed in File Explorer.
The lesson here is the following: when moving the location of a user folder, don’t use a location used by another user folder. Make sure that you move it to a location that is not used by another user folder.
Did you change user folder locations on your Windows 10 PC?
As you can see, in Windows 10, it’s easy to move user folders wherever you want. Regardless of whether you wanted to know how to change the Documents location, or change the location of your Downloads folder in Windows 10, now you know how to do it. Our recommendation is to move these folders to partitions not used by Windows 10 so that, if your system crashes, they have less chances of being affected by possible re-installs of the operating system. Furthermore, if you are using a solid-state drive, moving user folders might help you save precious storage space for apps and games that need a fast drive. Having your downloads and documents stored on a slower drive should not be a problem.
