User Folders - Change Default Location

Is it possible to change the defualt location of a user folder to an external hard drive or a network attached hard drive?

Thanks that's great, I've sorted it now. Thanks for your help.

I'm having great difficulty changing the location of folders. My Documents and Downloads work fine, but doing My Music, My Videos and My Pictures creates duplicate folders despite saying 'Yes'. These are without icons and can't be deleted as permission is denied. A System Restore gets things back to default, but how do I fix the problem?

Brink said:

Hello John,

Instead of moving the user folders, I would recommend to use libraries for this instead. You could have folders at any another location to have your files in, and include a folder in a library of your choice (ex: Music, Pictures, or Videos). You could even set any included folder to be the default library save to folder. This way you will be able to access every included folder in the library location, and still have everything stored at the folder's location.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll consider this option. I have found a work round to get rid of the duplicate empty folders - I can delete them in Safe Mode in order to clean things up. Presume this is OK?

Cheers

John

I followed the above instructions and when I hit the Yes button a box popped up stating that Windows is preparing to copy My Pics and it proceeded to copy the list of folders and then the pictures into my D drive instead of moving them into the designated drive. The Properties box for My Pics did not close after Windows started copying the My Pics folder it instead turned a blank gray.

Any advice?

Thanks