How to change user's directory like 'Download' to other directory via command line in Windows?

Question

I know that there is already an answer for this, but that isn't sufficient.

In Windows, moving user's directory like 'Download', 'Documents' to other directories can be splitted into three steps:

1. Modify registry to point new location of user's directory
2. (Optional) Move files in previous directory to new directory and delete previous directory
3. Remove desktop.ini from previous directory, and create new desktop.ini to new directory

I've managed to figure out (1) like this:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "My Pictures" /t REG_SZ /d "E:\PICTURE" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "My Video" /t REG_SZ /d "E:\VIDEO" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal" /t REG_SZ /d "E:\DOCUMENT" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}" /t REG_SZ /d "E:\DOWNLOAD" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "My Pictures" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\PICTURE" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "My Video" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\VIDEO" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "Personal" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\DOCUMENT" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{0DDD015D-B06C-45D5-8C4C-F59713854639}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\PICTURE" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{35286A68-3C57-41A1-BBB1-0EAE73D76C95}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\VIDEO" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\DOWNLOAD" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{7D83EE9B-2244-4E70-B1F5-5393042AF1E4}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\DOWNLOAD" /f
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "{F42EE2D3-909F-4907-8871-4C22FC0BF756}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "E:\DOCUMENT" /f

I'm not interested in (2), so I moved on to (3) with this:

(
  echo [.ShellClassInfo]
  echo LocalizedResourceName=@%%SystemRoot%%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770
  echo IconResource=%%SystemRoot%%\system32\imageres.dll,-112
  echo IconFile=%%SystemRoot%%\system32\shell32.dll
  echo IconIndex=-235
) > "E:\DOCUMENT\desktop.ini"
attrib +a +s +h "E:\DOCUMENT\desktop.ini"

This will replicate the content of desktop.ini for 'Documents', and its attributes. But this code has two problem:

1. File's encoding is UTF-8, but it should be UTF-16 LE BOM.
2. Since desktop.ini decides appearance of directory, the directory containing it should be look as 'Documents' for its localized name and icon. But it doesn't.

How can I solve these issues?

Answer 1

In order to fix it, make sure you copy the desktop.ini from the source to the destination, and ensure that you change the file attributes of desktop.ini to give it alteast +s +h.

Then change the attribute of the folder and give it at least +r.