What does Corel do with all the folders created in Documents? Any way to move all at once?

David, I believe that's the textbook example of an unhelpful response (instead of answering the question, you criticize the user for preferences).

However, to your question, here are several answers (TL;DR there are good reasons, so please help with solutions):

1. It's the default way that Windows works for everyone with a Microsoft Office subscription (personal or enterprise) -- OneDrive syncs Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to the Cloud for a synchronized experience across all PC's and live backup of all files. So, whether you endorse this or not, this is probably the same configuration millions of users have. Personally, I remove the Desktop from the list, because I set that up different per PC -- my workstation Desktop is different from my laptop which is different from my Windows tablet, due to their different screen sizes, number of monitors, and aspect ratios.
2. This is a logical way to set up the system (as long as programs like CorelDraw don't force their own directories into the user's document folders). Keeping an online backup is wise. OneDrive provides automatic versioning for all files at no expense to its capacity. I use multiple (3) PC's regularly (I love that CDGS supports 3PCs with its licensing), so this ensures the same files are always available on all 3 computers. If the files happen to be Office files (Word, Excel, etc.), I don't even need to remember to close them on the other PC's, because those programs support simultaneous shared editing; it even shows me where my cursor is on the other computer in case I forgot where I was. When I upgrade a PC with a replacement, something I do frequently, I just sign into OneDrive and I'm done. No files to copy over. Lastly, it's much cheaper than what I used to do, which was run a local server configuration at my home with automatic backups and multiple RAID-enabled PC.s. So yeah, OneDrive saves a huge amount of money and time, which making everyday life faster and easier.
3. Windows provides other locations specifically for the purpose of programs creating their own directory structure, which CDGS seems to ignore. Specifically, they SHOULD go Under C:\Users\<username> or in the hidden C:\Users\<username>\AppData (either in local or roaming, depending on whether the folder can be networked). Those are still user-specific, so they don't create any permission problems for non-admin users. They don't interfere with file dialogs, and they don't auto-sync to the cloud. 
4. My Internet connection has been metered during the day on my Starlink account (to be fully fair, it's not metered at right now, but it also wasn't 6 months ago, then it was for ~5 months, and this just flipped again a few days ago, so it could come back -- policies keep changing as they still seem to be working out their policies as a new service). Starlink is by far the fastest, most reliable, and best Internet available in rural areas (typically 100-200Mbps DL/10-20Mbps UL, latency now around 30ms, and virtually never down). The only wired equivalent without spending several hundred a month here is 10/1Mbps DSL, which is highly unreliable, going down for hours whenever the power fluctuates (for a while I did pay the several hundred dollars for higher speeds, multiple bonded T-1's, but even then, speeds and reliability were still no match for what I get with Starlink). More important, when Starlink was metered, it was only for data over 1TB per month and during the daytime, which was fairly easy to remain below, even with a little bit of 4K TV and movie streaming at night, and Windows updates happen at night. In any case, when your data usage is at risk of hitting a cap, you try to eliminate anything that's not essential (or at least I do). Syncing temp files is exactly the kind of thing that should not waste bandwidth.
5. Even for non-metered Internet connections, I have a wife and 2 kids, all of whom use the Internet at times. If you don't have a full Gbps connection (and maybe even if you do, thanks to problems like bufferbloat that create packet count bottlenecks at the router, independent of bandwidth), then that means you need to be respectful of uploads and downloads to not waste bandwidth that could affect the UX for another user.
6. This part is largely personal preference as opposed the top 5 reasons, but I also know that many users have similar preferences: I like to keep my Documents directory clean and highly organized, because nearly EVERY program pops that open whenever you go to a Save As or Open dialog. I try to keep my top-level folders there broad, so the total number of them is manageable.  Few things in regular computer usage irritate me more than a program requiring (or making it tough to change away from) a new top-level directory inside my Documents folder. Imagine if you started a new cable or streaming service (or whatever you may use regularly if you don't watch TV) and it required a seat at your kitchen table or a particular pillow on your bed or a large 3' x 3' x 3' cube to sit on the floor of your family room. It's intrusive, inconsiderate, and wrong. That's my space to setup how I want and no application should presume to use it without my express permission.

Even if none of those reasons are compelling or relevant to you, I hope you can at least see that I have valid reasons in my situation for wanting my systems configured the way they are. I do not intend to suggest that everyone should have the same preferences (but per #3, what Corel is doing as a default is objectively wrong -- allowing users to put it in Documents is fine, but doing it by default is not), just that mine are reasonable enough that there should be an easy solution to stop CDGS from creating not just 1, but 2 top level folders in my Documents directory and requiring manually changing 22 individual directories at last count. Worse, because Corel doesn't sync anything like that, I would need to do the same on every computer. That's 66 directories to redefine!

So, with your question answered probably far more verbosely than you expected, can you please offer some helpful suggestions on how to move those directories? And is there a registry location or INI file or something that stores this, so that after I have moved them on one computer, I can just copy that to the others so I don't have to do repeat across all PC's and every time I upgrade one (with 3 PC's I average about 1.5 PC upgrades every year)?

Thank you,
Colin

I had posted a lengthy response detailing why. The forum default-blocked it as spam. While we await my appeal, to summarize:

1. It's the default for Office subscribers and OneDrive users, so not exactly a fringe config.

2. It's smart for the auto-backup, version history, and cross-platform always-sync'd data, especially for multi-PC users, and I use 3.

3. Windows provides other locations in the Users folder specifically for programs to create their own directories.

4. Live in rural area with satellite Internet (Starlink, which actually is not metered right now, but was for the past several months).

5. Conserving bandwidth by not syncing temp files is helpful, even if not on a metered connection.

6. Personal preference: I like to keep my Documents well-organized, b/c it's the default location for file dialogs.

So, with that in mind, is there an easy way to change the locations and then copy that config change (e.g., a registry export or INI or XML file) to all my PC's?

I run 8 systems in my home studio, my CorelDRAW files vary in size from a few megabytes to 2.5 gigabytes each. I do an eclectic set of work from a business card to 200 feet donor walls and a significant amount of architectural image editing. I also do my own wildlife and landscape photography. I've been doing this for over 30 years, I have 5 terabytes of active files and 10 terabytes of archived files. I can't imagine what that would cost with Microsoft. 

I believe I have a reasonable grasp of file organization. 

Microsoft wants you to use OneDrive, it's a service that they sell, when creating CorelDRAW documents unless your files are very small it's not an efficient process for a multitude of reasons. In fact w8th clients that I provide support to I find cloud based workflows to be detrimental be it Sketchup, Adobe products or CorelDRAW. 

I go either to Newegg or CDW and buy USB 3 backup drives about $150 a piece and I have 2.

I configure CorelDRAW NOT to make backups of its files.

I have one system that acts as a file storage server fully shared, it is also a workstation, I created a folder structure based on client names, job names and job numbers.

My other systems are all attached to that network. Files are opened from that system, saved and backed up there twice a day using the Windows utility.

I do use OneDrive to access files that I may need when on location and for transfer fron non network devices but quite frankly web based file processing with any graphic application is non productive do to internet transfer times, even with a top of the line cable system. I open 2 GB files in 20 seconds across my network. My photography workstation archives client files on the server but holds my own photos which are backed up VIA the Windows utility to a 3TB USB3 drive.

I use WSFTP to upload client proofs to my web site for client download,  they markup and upload to their preferred file transfer process.

I've been running this for decades, of course it's easier for clients now with the proliferation of cloud based transfer sites.

David, one of the things in my original answer that Corel blocked as spam was the comment that your initial reply was textbook example of not helpful: you didn't answer my question, provided no helpful information, and just complained about my user preferences. Your second post here continues the problem.

If you don't have an answer to the question or constructive advice, then why respond at all?

You are clearly expert (not just on this, but I've seen many of your other posts here over the years), so, as an expert, what are all those locations Corel creates for, specifically, do they change much with usage (like temp files) or they just storing things like fonts and clipart that don't change much once installed? Is there a way to change the locations without having to manually tweak 22 file locations on every PC I use? For example, is there a single master location I can change the root path for all of its subdirectories? If not, if I change on one PC, is that change stored somewhere I can export and copy over to all my other computers?

You seem to agree that CorelDraw should not put files in Documents, as you say, "when creating CorelDRAW documents unless your files are very small it's not an efficient process for a multitude of reasons." Well, given that CorelDraw, for me, is a far less important program than Word and Excel, I'm not going to break everything else just for CorelDraw.

To your question on cost, an Office subscription that includes OneDrive for 1TB for 1 person is about $70/year. 6 TB is $99/year (often available at a discount down to about the 1TB price). That includes unlimited (I think, certainly a lot) of version backups for free regardless of size going back a fixed amount of time (not sure how long, but between a month and a year). So no need for Corel backups or other offsite backups, as OneDrive enables you to revert to an older version of a file anyway (even if hit by ransomware). In my case, it's effectively free, because I need the Office subscription anyway for Outlook, Word, and Excel, so the marginal cost for me is $0.

CorelDraw does not get to dictate how Windows works. As a program running on Windows, it should follow the UI guidelines, which include storing program data in locations other than a user's Documents folder. If it wants to provide additional options for users who want to put everything in Documents, that's great, but unless there's an easy way to relocate its root directories it currently creates in Documents, it's just being a bad actor. I say that as a serious fan of CorelDraw since at least version 4 or 5, maybe 3, in the early-mid '90s, and a guy Corel flew up to their office for a photoshoot around some positive quotes I had posted publicly back around 2000 (but I think that was for WordPerfect Office, when they were pushing that as an alternative to MS Office, not CDGS).