Moving my documents folder to another hard drive question


  1. Lemon Tree
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    Moving my documents folder to another hard drive question


    Hiya

    This might be a bit of a dumb question but I just want to check is it safe to directly cut and paste the my favorites, documents, pictures, music and video folders to another hard drive on my PC or I should do them manually through properties of each folder. Currently I'm using windows 7.

    Sorry for my awkward tone and many thanks in advance.
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  3. xxxdannyxxx
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    Hi Lemon Tree

    If you want all your user folder links to work correctly you are best doing each one through the properties.
    User Folders - Change Default Location

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  4. Lemon Tree
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    hhe Guess I should do it the safe way, thanks Danny.
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