User Folders - Change Default Location

Hi Brink,

Great stepthrough, many thanks

After successfully moving the My documents folders to a larger partition, I have one issue remaining however...

My old user folder on the C: drive now contains separate Music, Pictures and Videos folders to the ones that I moved, which are also appearing.

When I try to access these (presumably empty) folders I'm getting "C:Users\Phil\Pictures is not accessible. Access is denied."

I don't need these, is there any problem with just deleting them?

And if you ever move them back from where they are now (assuming they still have a location tab) the system will automatically recreate the folders.

Hi Brink (and whs),

Good question. There is no location tab for these files.

Under general tab its;
Type: file folder
location: C:\users\Phil
Size: 0 bytes
on disc: 0 bytes
Contains: 0 files, 0 folders

No problem deleting, and the relocated "My Docs" folders are still working fine. looks like the issue solved, great!

As a side note that might be of interest - when logging on today there was no issue with access to these empty folders.

Appreciate the help!

Thanks immensely for this tutorial. Worked perfectly. A couple of observations:

I knew that iTunes was picky about the location and moving of its files but there were no issues using this procedure to move iTunes (as subfolder in My Music) to a different partition. Brilliant!

A small command line tool for creating all the ...\User\username\folders at one swell foop. Assuming G: is drive letter for new partition and command window opened at C:\Users\{username}:

Code:

C:\Users\{username}>for /d %a in (*) do md g:\%a

George

What is the shell command to change the location of public folders?

1GRN1 said:

What is the shell command to change the location of public folders?

If nothing else, you can move them from the location tab in properties - that is if you mean like public music, public pictures, etc.