What's the correct way to change the location of the default Documents folder to an already existing OneDrive Documents folder from previous computer?

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We had to move a user to a new computer and put it on the local domain. He had his customary folders in OneDrive. On the new computer, those folders appear in OneDrive but not in the default icons. I opened up File Explorer and went to properties of the Desktop and changed to the location: C:\Users\rick\OneDrive\Desktop. When asked if I wanted to move everthing from the old Desktop, I said no. It worked as expected. Doing the same thing with the Documents folder, I got the following dialog box message: "Do you want to redirect folder “Documents” in another system folder “OneDriveDocuments” loc

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