$(visualstudiodir) changes upon starting visual studio

Kristof Nachtergaele 1

Somehow part of the macro's used for creating paths in visual studio 2017 pro seem to be pointing to my documents folder in the onedrive folder. I'm trying to change this, so that this does not break the build, as for some reason (probably having their pc's longer than me) this does not happen for my colleagues.

I've been using vsregedit to change some settings, but when i open visual studio and close it, those changes disappear.
VsRegEdit.exe set local HKCU \ VisualStudioLocation string "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017"
VsRegEdit.exe set local HKCU \ MyDocumentsLocation string "%USERPROFILE%\Documents"
These settings are correct if i check them after setting them, the only difference is that the %USERPROFILE% is replaced with the actual path.

But just starting up VS and closing again changes these back to the old ones with the onedrive path in them.

Anyone have any idea what might cause these changes?

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 27,356 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-05-07T09:28:26.657+00:00

Hi @Kristof Nachtergaele , welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Did you set one value or macro or maybe other setting as your OneDrive folder(documents folder) path?
Kristof Nachtergaele 1 Reputation point

2021-06-12T18:34:38.71+00:00

Hi, I set nothing myself.
I tried setting the values above with vsregedit, but it changed back as soon as visual studio started, even without opening a project.

in the end i changed the build files, because it was really annoying to get the onedrive warnings about files being deleted all the time.