Opening Files.

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Opening Files.

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Hi Folks, If I put a .txt file on my desktop, I get this:-
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If I copy or move it to D:drive, it opens normally.
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I have tried this on the same file when it was on my desktop and get as my first image everytime I try it.
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Can you please help???
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I suspect there is a problem with the registry entry for opening text files. Possibly missing quotes so it can't cope with folder names that include spaces.

Try changing the default editor for text files to Wordpad (right click a text file, open with, Wordpad, always use this app) and if that works then change it back to notepad again to see if it is fixed.
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Thanks StuartR, I solved the problen by using Task Manager to restart Windows Explorer. More details on its cause later.
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Hi StuartR, here is the info on events so far.
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Onedrive Problem.

I have always had Onedrive on D:drive on all my computers. That allowed me to copy items to the 'Desktop' where I could do what was needed, then move to somewhere to save it or just put it in the Recycle Bin.
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I copied the Onedrive files to an external USB HDD on both computers keeping a note of when it was done. Giving me 4 copies plus the one in the Cloud.
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The first thing I noticed in 'Settings' was:- image No. 1

I clicked the link and something started but there was no way to stop it. That was when I noticed:- image No.2

These are my Onedrive folder, but did not want the 'Desktop' to be included so I did:- image No.3

This gave me:- image No.4

Notice the little 'Ticks' bottom left on each.

The one way I could remove the ticks was to close Onedrive but this was not what I wanted,
so I did a 'Recovery' but it never rectified the situation as I still get the result of image No.1
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If you right click the desktop folder in Explorer, you can go to Properties > Location and move the desktop folder away from OneDrive to somewhere that you want it.
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Best wishes,
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Hello,sorry I'm slow in replying. I have been occupied doing a 'Recovery' and thing are nearly how I want them. This is how my Onedrive folder look now. Thanks.
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So Desktop has now been removed from OneDrive?
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