Accidentally Changed Location of "Documents" Folder to my Entire G Drive (A 10TB HDD) That Already Has a Lot on It

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Dustin4A

I just recently got a 10TB HDD and dumped a bunch of large files on there. Trying to clear up from space from my C Drive, I decided to move my "Documents", "Pictures", and "Videos" folders to the new TB HDD. Issue is when changing the location of the "Documents" folder I selected just the G drive, thinking it would create a folder automatically. It did not. And now my entire 10TB HDD is the new Documents folder.


I tried defaulting to the old "Documents" location, but it won't work. I get the error:


"Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "G:\System Volume Information". Access is denied."


I found another thread that suggested changing the security settings of the HDD but that did not work at all.

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