Moving "documents" to another drive?

metalmackey · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:20

Hi,

I have Vista Ultimate 64. Is it possible to move all my documents to my 2nd drive and let Vista know that the documents folder is there and not on the 1st drive?

Ta

marc2003 · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:21

right click it, select properties and goto the location tab.

metalmackey · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:31

Ahh, thanks mate

metalmackey · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:37

Will games know where to find saved data if I change the location?

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:40

Yes it is changing a system wide folder. So any program looking for your My Docs folder will be directed to the one you specify.

metalmackey · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:44

Thanks. Is it a good idea to have it on a seperate drive?

marc2003 · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:48

metalmackey said:
Thanks. Is it a good idea to have it on a seperate drive?

definitely. i've done it for years. if windows goes belly up, you don't have to worry about backing up your stuff before formatting. (apart from the odd few games that default to saving in \program files)

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 17:05

It is a lot healthier as what Marc2003 said

Jimmy1983 · 28 Oct 2007 at 17:49

Can you move all off the folder's contacts, desktop, downloads, my docs etc to another internal drive?

modo77 · 28 Oct 2007 at 17:54

Jimmy1983 · 28 Oct 2007 at 17:56

Take it the only way is too right click each separate folder to move it?

modo77 · 28 Oct 2007 at 17:58

Jimmy1983 · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:10

Eeek, just changed the location off my music folder to my other internal drive and now I can't find the music folder. I previously created a music shortcut and when I try that it says problem with shortcut.

Any ideas?

Conrad11 · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:29

I just simply copy and pasted the folders across and it seems to have changed all the locations of where the folders are.

Jimmy1983 · 29 Oct 2007 at 22:31

Yer maybe I should have done that, instead I right clicked then changed location.

bledd · 30 Oct 2007 at 00:22

make sure you don't remove the drive before changing the location back to your main drive, otherwise you'll get a ton of problems, mainly when installing programs, you'll have to create a new user account to resolve the problem

Jimmy1983 · 30 Oct 2007 at 17:53

bledd. said:
make sure you don't remove the drive before changing the location back to your main drive, otherwise you'll get a ton of problems, mainly when installing programs, you'll have to create a new user account to resolve the problem

Do you mean physically taking the HDD out off my case?

bledd · 30 Oct 2007 at 18:15

yes,i mean remove it, or change the drive letter in diskmanagement, both will screw things up

Jimmy1983 · 30 Oct 2007 at 21:31

So do you know how I can get the music folder icon back?

Now it looks like this, and when I try to open it its says 'problem with shortcut.....'

bledd · 30 Oct 2007 at 23:37

you may have to create a new user account and use that, but might get away with it since it's music and not my documents

browse here in regedit

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]

and modify the music one to default (create a folder first)