Reason NOT to move entire User profile from C to D ?

Hi!

Anyone know of a reason NOT to move my entire C:\Users\(myusername) profile from its default location in C drive to my D drive ?

I'm talking the entire User profile.

Is there a reason NOT to do this?

Thanks!

I'd have a read through the comments on our user profile move tutorial, if there is a reason not to do it then somebody will have mentioned it - User Profile - Change Default Location - Windows 7 Help Forums

Thanks.

One person had an issue.

I need to free up C-drive as this is where my wife's desktop
keeps everything.

Is it ok to just move the Desktop location?

When talking about those kind of changes with system locations and other "well known" locations I like to think in the opposite way: Why you should DO it instead. Given that it's the default and everything reasonably works that way I need to find a strong reason to do otherwise and take a risk of breaking something in this way. And that would be my question, why do you want to do that in the first place?

Out of my mind, I can thing a couple of reasons of why not do so:
- Because everything works if left alone.
- You're taking a risk of something going wrong if you don't know what you do.
- You can use your own set of folders and largely ignore your profile folder altogether. Just give the necesary permissions and you're done.
- If "C" and "D" are partitions of the same physical disk, because having partitions is unnecesary management headache. Folders on a consolidated drive are a far better option for almost everything.
- You can also "move" your profile by leaving a junction at their place, without touching any setting at all.
- Some really badly made program may still have the old locations hardcoded and malfunction.
- If you've writen some scripts/shortcuts/automation/whatever that point at your profile location's absolute path, all those will break.

Since 2013, when I bought a small SSD for Windows and Linux, I have moved C:\Users to D:\Users using Kari tutorial and never had any problem. Did the same for my Win 10 disk.
User Profiles - Create and Move During Windows 7 Installation - Windows 7 Help Forums

As you move C:\Users to D:\Users any user created will also be under D:\Users


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I have two hard drives in my computer -- one for Windows and the other for data. Here's how I have it set up:

Everything pertaining to Windows is on the C: drive, just where Windows put it. Except for one thing: my official Windows Documents folder. I have mapped that one folder to a folder on my D: drive, let's say D:\Docs. Therefore, most programs default to D:\Docs when deciding where to save my data, that is, unless I have told them specifically to use another folder.

Remapping the Documents folder is easy: Open File Explorer, right-click on the Documents folder, and choose Properties. Click the Location tab. Put D:\Docs (or whatever) in the little window, and click Apply. It will ask you if you want to move your stuff to there; I suggest you tell it No. I find it better to move it manually rather than letting Windows move it, because in that way I can decide exactly what to move and which subfolders to put it in.

Remapping the official Windows Documents folder has worked very well for me, because the only Windows stuff it relocates is the actual Documents folder, nothing else.

Using this approach has the added advantage of putting everyone's documents in that same location, because all user accounts have their official Windows Documents folders pointed to D:\Docs. For me, that is the best way to do it. Especially since my Data drive is also my shared drive; all computers in my house can access that drive, and all of them save their documents, etc., to that same drive and location. This makes backups very simple and prevents multiple copies of documents from being scattered among the various computers.

If you relocate your entire Windows user profile to another hard drive, and that drive crashes, your Windows user profile will be trashed. In my opinion, it's better to keep all of the Windows stuff on the same drive, except for your documents, MP3s, JPGs, and other personal items, which should be stored elsewhere.