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Windows looking for desktop.ini on an external drive at start up rather than on C: drive. How do I fix this?

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I needed to free up space on local drive and discovered that all my files were saved in both OneDrive and my local drive. I moved most of the files to an external drive to a folder specifically for these in case I moved something I shouldn't. I copied any files I thought needed to remain local just in case. Apparently Windows changed the path for the desktop.ini file to the external drive and now every time I start my PC I get a pop-up message that Windows cannot find the desktop.ini file and the path is to the file is the external drive. How can I get Windows to look in the right place for th

 

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