301 redirect for windows 7 folders possible???

Golf1.6 · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:57

Probably not. But work asking.

I have set all my data storage locations off the ssd and onto the mechanical D drive.

I have set windows explorer to the new default location for documents.

This is the default and only location for my documents: D:\Users\Golf1.6\Documents

But for some reasons some programmes still set the default location to C:\Users\Golf1.6

Often this catches me off guard and sometimes drives me insane because I'm 100% sure I saved it in my documents and I can't find it even after using windows search.

Is there any way to force all programmes to use the specified default documents folder? I think there might be a registry hack. Or maybe I can just delete the Documents folder from C and in place of it put a shortcut to D - I'm not being lazy - just want to consult first before doing.

The C:\Users\ will never be used to store anyone libraries. But I'm guessing the application data and other system stuff will still be stored there.

Craig321 · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:59

I've never had a problem with just setting the location on the Documents folder, everything gets saved into wherever it's located.

You can create a link between folders, in command prompt:
mklink /j D:\Folder C:\Folder

The above means when you open C:\Folder you're actually looking at the contents of D:\Folder. Works really well. I used to move my entire user profile using mklink junctions.

SilverTongue · 1 Mar 2014 at 15:08

Craig321 said:
I've never had a problem with just setting the location on the Documents folder, everything gets saved into wherever it's located.

You can create a link between folders, in command prompt:
mklink /j D:\Folder C:\Folder

The above means when you open C:\Folder you're actually looking at the contents of D:\Folder. Works really well. I used to move my entire user profile using mklink junctions.

This is how I have done it myself, keeps AppData etc off the SSD that way as well

Golf1.6 · 1 Mar 2014 at 15:27

It says "cannot creatr file when the file already exisits"

Golf1.6 · 1 Mar 2014 at 15:30

Do I need to delete my documents off c:\ drive? some games and apps have stored stuff in the C:\ drive

p.s. culprits who have saved stuff on C:\ when the default save location is D:\

Craig321 · 1 Mar 2014 at 15:37

Golf1.6 said:
It says "cannot creatr file when the file already exisits"

The destination directory can't exist, so you'd move your files over first, make sure the folder doesn't exist anymore on C:\ and then create the link.

chaosophy · 1 Mar 2014 at 16:18

Make sure you've updated any/all environment variables.

Search registry for c:\users\... and change, though tbh most should use the environment variable(s).

Search any/all *.ini, *.cfg, etc files for c:\users\... for apps that still use these with hard coded paths.