How to synch Canon DPP with photo files on Windows 11, without using Onedrive

[PCHC]

Good Afternoon! I've bought a new laptop with windows 11 having always downloaded photos from my old 80D & R7 ( all RAW image downloads) straight to Canon DPP, via the utility. Never had an issue on my old windows 10 laptop but on the new one, Microsoft One drive has decided to constantly flag up lack of space & eventually to shut it up, I toggled off the synch photo button.

Photos are fine in DPP but are now appearing in the correct date folder, in the photos app on Windows Explorer with both RAW & JPEGs, all marked with an error, red circle & white cross. They will show you the photo, if you actually click on them, but are otherwise greyed out.

As I can't afford to start the expensive process of adding to One drive storage, I think the work round is to bypass One drive & set up a local storage destination. I think I understand how to do that via File explorer but have no idea how to set up Canon DPP to synch with this new folder. The internet isn't clear what I should alter on the folder tree on the left. Any help for this technophobe pensioner would be very much appreciated, thank you.

[PCHC]

Thank you very much for your input~very kind. Someone has suggested I sync C drive & DPP & that seems to work well. 

[normadel]

If you have a large photo collection, storing it on your C: drive is a mistake. You should, as you yourself suggested, have an EXTERNAL storage drive, visible in Windows Explorer.  Creating folders on it to organize files is not difficult, and you can simply tell DPP about it, or drag & drop to move things. I'm puzzled why you would be using the command line at all to move your files.

[PCHC]

Thank you for taking the time to reply~much appreciated. I do have an external drive for back up as well but prefer to use the photos stored on the laptop, if I wish to download photos occasionally, onto FB for example. I needed to get the photos that were showing errors sorted as they were unusable. I didn't expect DPP to sync with the C drive photos so readily. Online info said you needed to change the storage pathway for DPP, & it was this I didn't know how to alter. It wasn't needed as it turned out.