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Back to basics - going back to C:\Users
When I first stared using Windows 7, I had my personal data files under the default C:\Users.
This worked worked well for a bir, except it made my backups very cumbersome. I later realized I wanted to have the ‘system files” on one drive (C drive) and my data files in another (D Drive).
In hindsight, I should have simply moved my data files to D:\UserData
However, in my eagerness, I didn’t do that, and instead, I followed the tips here User Folders - Change Default Location , and relocated my default User directory to D:\Users
That was a mistake on my part. I had some now-resolved, close-calls when I first did this ( could not get into the computer – corrupt or missing profile)) . All has been working ok ever since, except for two things:
a) backing up the \Users directryr means bakving up the AppData (and other 'system/app' directories in the process, and these tend to get a lot of temp files in them, slowing down my routine "data backups: to a crawl;All this to say, I want to move the Users directory back to its native C:\Users location, and want to simply keep my personal data on D:\UserData.
b) something got messed up along the way, which I did not see at the time. re AppData\Roaming and the alias link to it re Application Data.. For example, I just installed an app yesterday that didn’t work – traced it down to an ini file that appeared under Application Data and yet did not appear in AppDate\Roaming.
Do I simply follow the instruction in User Folders - Change Default Location?? How do ensure I don’t lock myself out again.