User Folders - Change Default Location

Hello Sarin,

I have updated the steps in the tutorial a bit to see if that may help. Please try again to see if it may. :)

If this does not work, you have an alternate route (which I actually prefer).

Make folders on your other disk and call them Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc.. Then right click on those folders and INCLUDE them into the appropriate library. Then copy your data from the C folders into the corresponding folders there. If that worked OK, you can delete the content of the folders in C (but not the base folder).

That gives you an extra entry in the libraries and clearly seperates the base system defined folders from your data. The advantage is tha system and program defined folders (especially in Documents) do not get mixed with your own stuff.

Agreed Wolfgang. It's much easier and preferred to create new folders where you want them, and just include them in whatever library you want them in for easy access.

Library - Include a Folder

I think that method is a much cleaner cut and you do not get all those program generated folders mixed into your stuff. Plus there is a much smaller chance to make a mistake. Those are the ones that settled in my default documents folder in the brand new system in just a couple of weeks. And there are a few I have already deleted.

Sarin,

Correct. Instead of moving say your C:\Users\(user-name)\My Pictures folder to another location, you could create a new folder named whatever on D: , copy what you want to be saved into the D:\new folder instead of any other location, then include the D:\new folder to say your Pictures library. :)

Yes, you should INCLUDE those folders into the libraries. Else you have only access to your files if you go to the D drive which may not always be convenient.

And leave the Windows default folders in place - even if they are originally empty. Some programs may need them. And if you copy the folders, leave those that were created by programs in the default folders and do not delete them because it is there that those programs will be looking for them. Here are some that are nesting in my default Documents folder.

Hello Techron,

I'd recommend to start over, and move your user folders, and just copy what you want from the old folders on the K drive.

If it's just a matter of HDD space, you could just leave your user folders alone at their default location on the C: drive, and just include the folders on the K drive to each library. This way you could access them through the library without having to mess with the user folders locations.