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Computer Upgrade Question

Gusf1Gusf1 Posts: 257
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I'm upgrading my win 7 machine to boot of a ssd. Windows and programs will be on the ssd and everything else on regular hard drives. Does anyone know how to tell Windows to put the User data folders on a different drive? Many programs store data to the User Folders which could fill the drive very fast.
Gus

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    Mostly you can right-click on them, select Properties and use the Location tab to move the folder. The public folder, however, cannot be moved as far as I know and the DAZ Install Manager currently uses that - I moved mine by creating a symbolic link to a folder on another drive for the DIM folder

  • Gusf1Gusf1 Posts: 257
    edited December 1969

    I just tried right clicking on MY user data folder and wasn't given the location tab. Nor for a random folder elsewhere either. The public folder doesn't seem to have much in it yet, except for Poser 8 stuff. It might become a problem in the future, though. By symbolic, did you mean using Libraries? I looked on Microsoft forums and that kind of thing was mentioned. I'm going to look I\nto that some more as well.
    Gus

  • ruekakaruekaka Posts: 346
    edited December 1969

    Are you looking for something like that:
    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/87555-user-profile-change-default-location.html

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    Symbolic links are covered here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

  • Gusf1Gusf1 Posts: 257
    edited December 1969

    ruekaka : That is precisely what I needed. I will probably be doing a clean install of windows and doing that then should work perfectly.

    Richard, after reading that, Symbolic links, if I understand it right, are a very powerful tool. Correct me if I'm wrong. If you make a Symbolic link of C;Users and redirect it to say, E:Users, most programs that use C:Users would actually be writing and reading data from E:Users. Will it handle creating directories, etc through the SymLink seamlessly? Are there any disadvantages I need to be aware of? I know it said something about programs using SymLinks being a problem. Have you run into that? One of the articles I saw mentiond a Shell enhancement for Windows, Have you used it?
    Gus

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    I wouldn't move the whole of the Users folder, but it should - as far as I understand it - be transparent in use. Just remember that it won't copy existing files and folders in the old location, unlike the Location tab in Properties, so I would use it only witht hings that can't be moved anyway (such as the DIM folders in the Public Profile).

  • Gusf1Gusf1 Posts: 257
    edited December 1969

    Thank you for all your help.
    Gus

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