I cannot change captures folder

I did exactly as this link shows, but redirecting to a slave drive's root.

The difference is, I didn't create a new folder on the separate drive before clicking ok. Somehow that made the real Captures folder go into the abyss.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/87523-move-location-game-dvr-captures-folder-windows-10-a.html

The capture folder is now completely missing. It cannot be located, and every time I re-open the game bar now it has decided to place where captures are saved in a different odd place. It went from the root of the slave drive of where I tried to move the captures
folder to, to the Videos folder, to the temp folder, and now to the system recovery partition. It's acting weird. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game bar. No change.

If I understand what you are talking about, it sounds like you need to empty the capture folder on your PC. The Game Bar will show the files that are in the capture folder. When you moved the capture folder it sounds like it changed the modified date
on your old captures so they all showed up as recent again.

Here is a step by step guide on how to change your Capture Folder location. Hope this helps.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-game-dvr-captures-folder-location-windows-10

If you have not changed the default location, then they will be in a folder named captures, which should be in your default videos folder.

This is a complete CF (in military terms). I moved the capture folder to an external drive, and now that it's no longer connected there is no Capture folder (defaulting to C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Temp) as a random file.

There is NO WAY to change the folder....

I see that they keep locking threads when they don't have a clue how to answer or address the problem...