When I close Studio all my projects disappear from the Projects view and the custom project templates I added to the Setup/project templates also disappear

Every time I close Studio 2022, two things happen:
- all the projects in my Projects view disappear and I have to open them manually;
- the custom project templates I created and added to Studio setup (including the default one I had chosen) disappear from the list and Studio reverts to the original Default project template.
This is the configuration: in my computer, the folder My documents automatically points to a network drive (option imposed by my work that I cannot change). Once Studio was installed, I recreated all the Studio 2022 subfolder structure on the real C drive (not syncing or pointing to a network drive). I modified the Sdl.ProjectApi.xml file to make sure that projects are created in the correct LocalDataFolder. The projects.xml file is indeed in the Projects folder in the "real C" drive since that it where I saved the first project I created. In all my custom project templates, the project location is also the Projects folder in the real C drive. 
If I try to rename the projects.xml file so that Studio creates a new one when I close it and reopen it, Studio does not create a new projects.xml file.
In fact, that file has not been modified for over three weeks, which makes me think that for whatever reason Studio is not able to access it and that is what is causing both problems. I checked the properties of the file and the folder that contains it and everything seems fine regarding access rights.
Any ideas what can be causing it and what the solution might be? Having to manually open all my projects and manually select my project templates every time I reopen Studio makes me waste a lot of time.
Thanks.
Beatriz

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    If your companys policy is to use the network drive, you are most probably not allowed to put these files on C:

    I use OneDrive for My Documents folder on my computer, thus the folder Studio 2022/... is located on the OneDrive and this does not make any trouble. This said, I do NOT locate any project files there.  Only the file called projects.xml (located in ...\Studio 2022\Projects\) is there. And this is the file responsible for keeping track of your projects AND project templates. So try to use the cloud and see, if that helps.

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  • Hi Jerzy. I have a question for you regarding your use of OneDrive and Studio. Up to now, we had all the Studio files (including project files, memories, and so on) on the default My Documents/Studio 2022 folder. Even though we have a OneDrive account (that we can access via the web or via the Windows Explorer if we link our computer to OneDrive), the Documents folder was not synchronized by default  and we could decide if we wanted to link our computer to our OneDrive account and if so, which folders or subfolders to sync. Without any warning from our organization, some colleagues had their full Documents/Desktop/Images folders extracted from the C drive and put in OneDrive fully synchronized. We work with project templates and once everything has been moved, Studio can´t find our resources. We have tried different methods to put back the Studio 2022 folder back into C:\Users\[username]\Documents and then unlink the computer from OneDrive. However, there is a C:\Users\[username]\OneDrive - XXXX\Documents folder that remains after unlinking the computer, that contains an almost empty Studio 2022 folder, with just the Project Templates folder and the sdltpl files that come with it. If we delete that folder, then Studio won´t open, and it will automatically recreate that folder. Is there any way to avoid that?  We would really want to go back to have all Studio files on our C/User/Documents/Studio 2022 usual place. From what you say, that is how you work, the default files that came with Studio stay in your OneDrive (default Project templates?, projects.xml) but all your real files (memories, projects, termbases, custom project templates...) are somewhere else outside of OneDrive. Did you run into problems with that configuration? Lost of data, slowness...? I thought the use of OneDrive or a network drive is not recommended for Studio. 
    It is possible that, as you mention, once the organization moved those folders to OneDrive, we are not allowed to put them back on the C. 
     
    Some translators have been trying relentlessly for two days to get things back to what we had before without success, so any advice is welcome.

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  • Hi Jerzy. I have a question for you regarding your use of OneDrive and Studio. Up to now, we had all the Studio files (including project files, memories, and so on) on the default My Documents/Studio 2022 folder. Even though we have a OneDrive account (that we can access via the web or via the Windows Explorer if we link our computer to OneDrive), the Documents folder was not synchronized by default  and we could decide if we wanted to link our computer to our OneDrive account and if so, which folders or subfolders to sync. Without any warning from our organization, some colleagues had their full Documents/Desktop/Images folders extracted from the C drive and put in OneDrive fully synchronized. We work with project templates and once everything has been moved, Studio can´t find our resources. We have tried different methods to put back the Studio 2022 folder back into C:\Users\[username]\Documents and then unlink the computer from OneDrive. However, there is a C:\Users\[username]\OneDrive - XXXX\Documents folder that remains after unlinking the computer, that contains an almost empty Studio 2022 folder, with just the Project Templates folder and the sdltpl files that come with it. If we delete that folder, then Studio won´t open, and it will automatically recreate that folder. Is there any way to avoid that?  We would really want to go back to have all Studio files on our C/User/Documents/Studio 2022 usual place. From what you say, that is how you work, the default files that came with Studio stay in your OneDrive (default Project templates?, projects.xml) but all your real files (memories, projects, termbases, custom project templates...) are somewhere else outside of OneDrive. Did you run into problems with that configuration? Lost of data, slowness...? I thought the use of OneDrive or a network drive is not recommended for Studio. 
    It is possible that, as you mention, once the organization moved those folders to OneDrive, we are not allowed to put them back on the C. 
     
    Some translators have been trying relentlessly for two days to get things back to what we had before without success, so any advice is welcome.

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