Moving "My Documents/User Account" of C:\

Cyrl

Cyrl

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Hi, I've put together a new system with 2 500Gb f3's, one will be for OS + apps, other for data. I'll be using Windows 7, used the RC1 for a few months and happy with it, hopefully it will install fine (student download - maybe corrupt). Now my question is: is it possible to move the user account folder (my documents/downloads/pictures etc) onto the 2nd HDD?

Perhaps this is a stupid question as it's just a case of copy and paste but as far as I'm aware the user account studd had to stay within "C:\Users\...". Any ideas?
 
using a 'junction' for this is madness

just use the built in function
click start, click your name, so it shows your 'user folders' (or, start, run %userprofile% /enter)
right click 'Documents' properties, Location
Type in a new location..

I use

D:\Documents
D:\Videos
D:\Downloads
D:\Music
D:\Pictures

click ok, it'll move everything and ask you to confirm etc
 
bledd. said:
using a 'junction' for this is madness
Click to expand...

It depends what he wants to do. I always used to use the built in function to move my documents/music/pictures to my D:\ drive, however I quickly noticed that most of my application settings (Firefox bookmarks, settings and various other programs) were stored in %appdata%, and I tended to work off my desktop a lot.

So, I still had a fair bit of stuff (files from Desktop) and settings that were going to C: which I don't back up & which is on RAID 0.

So, I used a junction to move my entire user profile to D:\ which gets backed up nightly. Windows still thinks it's located in C:\ & it works perfectly.

Craig.
 
Hmm as I now seem to have my system stable (9.11 drivers, finally) I gave this a go last night but seem to have an issue - when I log in it says I've logged into a temporary account and my files will be deleted when I log off, I also seem unable to save any files *anywhere* (it allows me to click ok etc but the files don't actually save to any location).

When I attempted to use the code in the link above (http://www.starkeith.net/coredump/2009/05/18/how-to-move-your-windows-user-profile-to-another-drive/) the command prompt came back with a syntax error, so I introduced ""'s around the location addresses i.e.:

>mklink /j "C:\Users\Cyrl" "D:\Users\Cyrl"
(the original C:\Users\Cyrl folder was renamed to C:\Users\Old Account)

This worked and a directory junction was created between the two locations with a shortcut placed at C:\Users\Cyrl leading to D:\Users\Cyrl and after copying the original folders over before making the junction the few files I had saved were then stored on the D:\.

Problem is now I can't save *anything* to any location regardless of the drive, any clues here? (Win 7 64 Home Premium).

Cheers,
Cyrl
 
Make sure you have copied every single user profile file. You'll need to go to Organize > Folder and search options > View > Show hidden files and folders & uncheck Hide protected operating system files.
 
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