Special folders

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Special folders in drive dropdown menu: Documents,Music,Movies etc. when redirected from explorer (properties->location) still point to default locations, not exactly expected behavior.

[Mathias (Author)]

That is because you have not change the Special Folders for Documents/Pictures/Movies and so on. You have modified the Libraries for Documents and Pictures and so on. (two different but similar things)

Libraries are not real folders, they are virtual folders that show the aggregated results of 1 or more folders.
It is a concept that the Windows Shell has on top of the filesystem and it is not part of the real filesystem on the disk.
And since MC have had as a rule to always show the truth of how the filesystem look like, it can not be shown since the there is no real path it.
Libraries might be support by a separate plugin in the future.

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I know what libraries are, i haven't touched them they are clean defaults with only special folders added.
There is no library "downloads" btw... see attached screen. (not eng. win but it's downloads folder)...

[Mathias (Author)]

Strange.
MC is asking Windows for the location of those paths and MC then go to where Windows said there are.
Don't know why it does not work when changing location. It is Windows that handled it.