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Moving user profile/My documents etc to another drive

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*Talescaper Jun 27, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Hello,
I recently got myself a new PC with Windows 7 and a nice SSD drive to have it boot up nice and easy. The problem however is that my windows userprofile and the Document folders are also located on this SSD drive. Since it's only 80 GB big and I like using my documentfolders for large amounts of constantly changing large files, I'd like to move my userprofile to a different drive where there will be enough space. I've already tried this, but that just destroyed my profiles completely. I've also tried moving the folders as suggested here, but that didn't work out very well at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions about a way to get my documents in a location that can actually store a lot of documents?
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!aBallofWin Jun 30, 2012
Go to My Computer, now where you see the Libraries to the left (Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos) Right click Documents and go to properties. Now go to Include a folder... and find your folder on your SSD drive, highlight the Documents folder on there and click on Include folder!

There, you've linked the Documents folder from your SSD to your main account on the new computer. If you want to make it the default save location as well (so when you go to save new documents it will save it to the SSD instead of the computer) then select the New Documents folder in the Documents Properties and press Set save location.

Done without having to move stuff about or that, enjoy :)
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!aBallofWin Jun 30, 2012
Obviously doing this for each folder :P
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~PR-Imagery Jun 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Open your user folder (start>your name) and select all your user folders(music, docs, videos, pictures, searches, links etc), pretty much everything there except the hidden/system items like appdata, and ntuser.dat files, and cut/paste them to the other drive. That would automatically change the folder directory for your user files.
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~1and1isme Jun 29, 2012  Student Digital Artist
just move the folder on the other drive. Also if the drive is actually on your system you can open your documents so via: Bibliotheken\Documenten
Then it should say documents contains one location. click that 1 location thing and you can add a folder on your other hard drive as your documents you can slo deselect the folder on your C drive and then copy everything from there to your new documents folder :)
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~Electron-x Jun 27, 2012
With Windows XP redirection of the My Documents folder and copying a user profile is very easy to realize.
The following document describes the changes in Windows 7: What's New in Folder Redirection and User Profiles
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`Pakaku Jun 27, 2012
Move all of your pre-existing stuff onto the external drive (you don't need a program to do that), and use your SSD as a scratch drive of sorts
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