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Understanding the Context

If the tool ... This tutorial will show you how to set File Explorer to open to either This PC, Home (Quick access), OneDrive, Downloads, or a custom location by default for your account in Windows 11. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder in your OneDrive folder, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted on the OneDrive website and vice versa. You can work with your synced files directly in File Explorer in Windows or Finder in macOS.

Key Insights

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Final Thoughts

So, this is a (very) long-winded way of saying how do I get my File Explorer back to showing shortcuts to the directory that I duplicate in OneDrive (I do not want to search for it forever since Windows has changed the file structure to be incomprehensible, among it's other issues). Thanks you (and sorry for ranting).