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what is the "open in terminal" prompt mean

I have screwed up my work station royally.

1.) Fighting One Drive, I deleted my documents folder, until I found the solution (I should have believed the warning ....) Now, I cant get to downloads, but there is another download folder that has an arrow and has an "open in terminal" prompt. I dont know what that is, so want to avoid further damage.

2.) I had copied information from an old backup computer from a thumb drive, and performed the correct eject instructions, and the message said that it was safe to remove the hardware -- but now I'm getting prompted with "cant open D:\ drive."

Any help to either (any) of these problems, would be most appreciated!

Hi Patricia, This is Ramesh.

1. Please post screenshots of the error messages you're getting.

2. Let's check the user shell folder locations by querying the registry. Open Command Prompt and run this command: 

reg.exe query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"


Copy the output. Paste the contents (Ctrl + V) into your reply window.
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Hi, Ramesh! and thank you very much! Sorry for my delay.

I am no longer getting the "open in terminal" prompt in the "download folder with an arrow." It shows our recently downloaded stuff correctly in that folder.

For the "real" document folder, I am still getting the d:\ prompt for the thumb drive that I safely removed:

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Here is the result of the RegEdit query:

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Last updated April 21, 2025 Views 177 Applies to: