Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread. If the Answer is helpful, please click ' Accept Answer' and upvote it. If you scan a document or picture using Windows Fax and Scan, the files are stored in your Scanned Documents folder, located in the Documents folder on your. Windows Fax and Scan would now use D:\Documents\Scanned Documents to save your incoming & outgoing faxes and scanned images. Whenever you want to launch Windows Fax and Scan, double-click the script or its shortcut. You can use its icon for the above script shortcut. This creates a linked folder (symlink, not a shortcut), one that acts like a normal folder but is actually located in a different place, so when the scan software saves into its default location the files will actually be saved into X:\Scans The Windows Fax and Scan executable is located at C:\Windows\System32\WFS.exe. Mklink /d 'C:\Users\Tim\Documents\Scanned Documents' X:\Scans
Into it you should enter this command, I wanted my scans to be saved in X:\Scans Then click the windows key and type into Run or Search (Or click WinKey + R) and type 'cmd' then press Enter What do should do now is backup the files in this folder and then delete the 'Scanned Documents' folder entirely In his case it opened this (which he copied from the address bar): Please kindly check if the method in above thread was helpful to you:įirst find the real location of Libraries/Documents/Scanned Documents, to do this right click Scanned Documents and click 'Open folder location' How to MOVE default location of Windows Fax and Scan?
Here is a similar thread discussed before for your reference.
