C:\Users\Username\Desktop is Empty.

IMAyNeed said:

MacGyvr said:

I don't recommend moving anything under the users structure, but that's just me.

I know it is not a good idea to mess with it, just some programs are saving their settings to documents, and at every install, I am having to create those settings again. That is taking time.

But unfortunately, when you move documents, you move all the documents, not just the ones you want.

I saw that it is better not to mess, because it will be creating folders in my 10 GB documents folder in the other partition, and it can confuse me where did this folder come or what to delete, and what not.

You can have multiple locations for your documents....that's what the Documents Library is for!

MacGyvr said:

What program(s) are saving settings to documents?

TMPGEnc and a few other video editors. I am creating filters and templates and they are saving it there.
I will just copy those to my other documents in another partition and save it to the new documents after the program is reinstalled from now on.

MacGyvr said:

IMAyNeed said:

MacGyvr said:

I don't recommend moving anything under the users structure, but that's just me.

I know it is not a good idea to mess with it, just some programs are saving their settings to documents, and at every install, I am having to create those settings again. That is taking time.

But unfortunately, when you move documents, you move all the documents, not just the ones you want.

I saw that it is better not to mess, because it will be creating folders in my 10 GB documents folder in the other partition, and it can confuse me where did this folder come or what to delete, and what not.

You can have multiple locations for your documents....that's what the Documents Library is for!

My documents library is different already. (The 10 GB -so far- folder in another partition mentioned above).
But some programs are automatically saving their settings (templates, filters too) to "C:\users\username\documents" automatically.
Not at every reinstall of Windows, I am having the mind to check those folders and copy the ones I want.

It is the same for the links (C:\Users\Username\Links) folder. I may have 20 links there (The Favorites in Windows Explorer left top) and if I didn't save them before reinstalling Windows, I would have to create them again.

whs said:

MacGyvr said:

What program(s) are saving settings to documents?

He is right. None of the folders in the picture below were created by me. But I make seperate folders for all user files in a seperate partition and Include those into the repective libraries. This way I seperate system created folders from the ones which are my own.

Your screenshot does not illustrate normal behaviour. Nothing like this occurs on my system and never has. Once in a GREAT while a program will create a folder in Documents, but it is EXTREMELY rare.

IMAyNeed said:

MacGyvr said:

IMAyNeed said:

I know it is not a good idea to mess with it, just some programs are saving their settings to documents, and at every install, I am having to create those settings again. That is taking time.

But unfortunately, when you move documents, you move all the documents, not just the ones you want.

I saw that it is better not to mess, because it will be creating folders in my 10 GB documents folder in the other partition, and it can confuse me where did this folder come or what to delete, and what not.

You can have multiple locations for your documents....that's what the Documents Library is for!

My documents library is different already. (The 10 GB -so far- folder in another partition mentioned above).
But some programs are automatically saving their settings (templates, filters too) to "C:\users\username\documents" automatically.
Not at every reinstall of Windows, I am having the mind to check those folders and copy the ones I want.

It is the same for the links (C:\Users\Username\Links) folder. I may have 20 links there (The Favorites in Windows Explorer left top) and if I didn't save them before reinstalling Windows, I would have to create them again.

Let Windows do what it wants in c:\users. Include your own users folder from another location in the Documents library. Put anything you save in the "other" location. Leave what Windows saves in the "normal" location.

MacGyvr said:

Let Windows do what it wants in c:\users. Include your own users folder from another location in the Documents library. Put anything you save in the "other" location. Leave what Windows saves in the "normal" location.

That is what I arranged after.
These folders below have been created by Windows.
All the folders in "C:\Users\Username\My Documents" are below now.

Thank you very much!

I will read the tutorial again and again, but it seems perfect for my problem.
I just installed Windows today, and there is already over 1 GB in Program Data.
Program Data will help me a lot because most of my video and sound editors are copying their files there.

It works with non-SSD (SATA) disks too, right?
And I hope the hybrid (MBR/EFI) MBR partition (200 MB GPT) wouldn't cause a problem.
[Today, I was looking for some back up programs to use and unfortunately I found out that they don't back up to non-NTFS partitions (HFS+, read/write in Windows by MacDrive) and they don't support hybrid MBR partitions]

Thank you very much again!

P.S.: You are so much closer to where I was born (Weissensee) than me!