Is moving My Documents safe?

Wow...I'm not even going to try...what a mess. All I'll say is DeaconFrost is correct.

Ok thanks for all the help. I think I solved it by moving the location in the properties menu and modifying the security permissions.

One last thing, I assume the security permissions only apply to Windows then, so for example if I mounted the drive in Ubuntu I could view all the folders and files no matter what the Windows permissions where. Is that correct?

DeaconFrost said:

Everything I'm reading says that when you redirect the folder properly, the permissions go along with it.

Where did you read this? When I move the files, they inherit properties from new drive.

Cluent said:

Where did you read this? When I move the files, they inherit properties from new drive.

On here, when people insist on making this far more complicated, rather than just changing where their libraries point. I've never done it myself, as there's no reason for me to do so.

From what I've seen lately we've mostly stopped advising to Move user shell folders after various issues with imaging and permissioning kept coming up.

I would simply copy them to the new location, then rightclick to add to the related Library - Include a Folder - Windows 7 Forums.
Then delete the contents of the C user folder you've copied and relinked. You will need to reset permissions on the folder since it is no longer the Shell folder abandoned on C but a satellite copy.