After following this guide to relocate my User directories to another drive, the Windows 7 backup utility does not pick up the new location.
The backup completes successfully but warns that some files are missing. The logs show that pretty much all of the files expected in my user directories are missing:
Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Me\AppData\LocalLow. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002))
Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Me\Contacts. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002))
Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Me\Desktop. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002))
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Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Wife\AppData\LocalLow. Error:(The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003))
Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Wife\Contacts. Error:(The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003))
Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Wife\Desktop. Error:(The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003))
...
The new location of my user profiles is on my D: drive using the same structure (i.e. D:\Users\me\*) but the logs indicate that Windows backup isn't looking there.
I've tried changing an additional registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory from %SystemDrive%\Users to D:\Users with no luck.
Any idea what I'm missing to make Windows Backup work successfully with non-standard %UserProfile% directory? Failing that, is there a different backup utility available that will support this situation?
