Documents etc. on seperate hard drive

wildest_jjk · 20 Sep 2011 at 15:18

Hey guys,

Basically I have an SSD and a hard drive. On the SSD is of course the OS and will be where my programs will go. Then there is my hard drive which I will have documents, pictures etc on. The thing I want to ask is what is the best way to achieve this? There are two ways that I can see of doing this:

Move just the individual folders:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html

Or move the whole user profile by doing this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/87555-user-profile-change-default-location.html

Which way would you guys say is best, if either of these?

Thanks

marc2003 · 20 Sep 2011 at 16:07

i wouldn't move the whole profile. some apps/temp files get written there and you want that on your fastest drive.

it certainly makes sense to move documents, pictures, music etc. but following those steps is a bit too much like hard work. simply highlight one (or more) folder(s) and then cut and paste to the new location. windows automatically detects this and updates the location stuff in the background. i do this myself.

wildest_jjk · 20 Sep 2011 at 17:15

marc2003 said:
i wouldn't move the whole profile. some apps/temp files get written there and you want that on your fastest drive.

it certainly makes sense to move documents, pictures, music etc. but following those steps is a bit too much like hard work. simply highlight one (or more) folder(s) and then cut and paste to the new location. windows automatically detects this and updates the location stuff in the background. i do this myself.

Thanks for the response. To be honest that's what I thought. So I guess I will just do the individual folders.

Many thanks!

anything I don't mind · 20 Sep 2011 at 19:28

I recommend just clicking on your libraries folders and going to the location tab and moving them to another drive. Having temp folders and your appdata on your ssd is definitely making use of your ssd. If you install an application (itunes, calibre etc) and it writes loads to the ssd, use mklink /D to another drive with the large data folder that it creates or move it within the application. Also if you get low on space then clear out temp folders and move folders with mklink.