Looking to Upgrade to a New SSD

Not to worry as SSD's don't suffer from low disk space to near the same extent as a spinner !

Well, I guess Sony Vegas 10 and Photoshop 6.0 are big programs and need a lot of space. Your SSD load is no problem. Just make sure that you always keep 10 to 20% free space. Else the garbage collection may not work so well.

whs said:

Here is the way I move user files to the spinner:

1. I create folders for Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures on the spinner

2. I right click on those folders and INCLUDE them in their respective libraries

3. I rename them in the library (the left pane) to e.g. WHS Documents. That way they will not also be called 'My Documents'

4. I move my own folders (not the OS default folders) to their repective folders on the spinner. The OS default folders I leave in place because certain programs want to store things there. When you move the user folders, make sure that the program generated folders are not being moved.

You then will end up with 3 folders in the library - e.g. for Videos (see picture)
My Videos
Public Videos
Your name Videos

The advantage of this setup is that the program generated folders (which are usually quite small) will not get mixed up with your user folders.

There is another way to move the user folders and that is via the location tab in the folder properties. But that moves everything and the default location of those folders. Very often that gets messed up if you don't do it right and you are stuck with them where they are because the location tab disappears. Not recommended to do it that way (although I once published a video tutorial showing how to do that, LOL). You live and learn.

If I do this for "My Documents", I will be moving the contents of "My Documents" to the HDD; then I delete the contents of the same folder on the SSD, but leave the folder.
Do I understand this correctly ?

Kind of. If you 'MOVE' your documents, then they are gone in the original location. It is like a cut/paste, not a copy/paste. And yes, leave the system generated folder on the SSD. Move only your own stuff. And also do not move any folders that were generated by programs.

whs said:

Kind of. If you 'MOVE' your documents, then they are gone in the original location. It is like a cut/paste, not a copy/paste. And yes, leave the system generated folder on the SSD. Move only your own stuff. And also do not move any folders that were generated by programs.

Forgive my slowness here.
I would be doing the "cut/paste" ?
so they would only be on the HDD ?

Right.

whs said:

Right.

Thank you,
you are a God !

One last question; can I safely move Dragon Naturally Speaking to the HDD and still have it function properly ?

COMPUTIAC said:

whs said:

Right.

Thank you,
you are a God !

One last question; can I safely move Dragon Naturally Speaking to the HDD and still have it function properly ?

A program you cannot just move. You have to uninstall it on the SSD and then reinstall it. During the reinstallation, you can direct the installer to put it into a predefined folder on the HDD - if it lets you. That does not work for each and every program.