Move Documents and Settings?

[Terry Pinnell]

My C:\Documents and Settings folder has grown very large, and my C:
partition is filling up fast. Can I bodily move the whole thing onto
my D: partition, where I have space, or is that verboten?

 

[CWatters]

I don't think a straight drag and drop will work. Try this page (backup data
first!)...

http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/000550.php

When it comes to doing future backups - Don't forget that some info will
remain on C: (eg your mail folders and other settings). You can relocate
some of these as well if you want.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

I don't think a straight drag and drop will work. Try this page (backup data
first!)...

http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/000550.php

When it comes to doing future backups - Don't forget that some info will
remain on C: (eg your mail folders and other settings). You can relocate
some of these as well if you want.

Thanks, but that article's about changing location of the My Documents
folder.

 

[Alex Nichol]

My C:\Documents and Settings folder has grown very large, and my C:
partition is filling up fast. Can I bodily move the whole thing onto
my D: partition, where I have space, or is that verboten?

You cannot move Documents and Settings (which is needed on C at the time
you logon), but you can move My Documents out of it, which is probably
what is taking space. Open a My Computer window on
C:\Documents and Settings\you
to show My Documents, and another on a different drive. Then with the
*right* mouse button down, drag it across, and take *Move* here on
release

 

[Waguih Boctor]

Hi,

I have the same problem. If I right-click on My Documents, select Properties
and click the Move button, would that accomplish the smae thing? And would
that then also automatically change all Windows references to My Documents
and its subdirectories (My Pictures, My Music, etc) to switch to the new
location?

My C:\Documents and Settings folder has grown very large, and my C:
partition is filling up fast. Can I bodily move the whole thing onto
my D: partition, where I have space, or is that verboten?

You cannot move Documents and Settings (which is needed on C at the time
you logon), but you can move My Documents out of it, which is probably
what is taking space. Open a My Computer window on
C:\Documents and Settings\you
to show My Documents, and another on a different drive. Then with the
*right* mouse button down, drag it across, and take *Move* here on
release

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have the same problem. If I right-click on My Documents, select Properties
and click the Move button, would that accomplish the smae thing? And would
that then also automatically change all Windows references to My Documents
and its subdirectories (My Pictures, My Music, etc) to switch to the new
location?

It certainly changes the references - as does the other method. I
*think* it also moves the content of the fol;der, but as I have only
done it that way on a fresh installation, with nothing there, I can't be
sure

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

It certainly changes the references - as does the other method. I
*think* it also moves the content of the fol;der, but as I have only
done it that way on a fresh installation, with nothing there, I can't
be sure

that's right - there is an option to move all files and folders from the
current location to the new. It works well, I've done it several times.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

You cannot move Documents and Settings (which is needed on C at the time
you logon), but you can move My Documents out of it, which is probably
what is taking space. Open a My Computer window on
C:\Documents and Settings\you
to show My Documents, and another on a different drive. Then with the
*right* mouse button down, drag it across, and take *Move* here on
release

Thanks Alex. I moved My Documents at a very early stage. This is now
mainly 136 MB in All Users\Application Data, of which 120 MB is
\Microsoft\Media Index. What is that, and can that be shifted please?

There's also 180 MB of downloads. Hadn't realised that was
contributing so much, but presumably no problem at all in simply
changing my default download locatio to somewhere in D:\Docs?

 

[Jeff N.]

The file wmplibrary_v_0_12.db in the Media Index folder is a cache for
Windows Media Player which can grow quite large. Safe to toss as it will be
recreated.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks Alex. I moved My Documents at a very early stage. This is now
mainly 136 MB in All Users\Application Data, of which 120 MB is
\Microsoft\Media Index. What is that, and can that be shifted please?

Application data is registered in the same way, so *provided* the
programs that put things there work in the proper way it *ought* to be
possible to move it in the same right-drag move here technique. But I
have not actually tried, and because of other things I am doing on this
system at the moment, I can't readily do a test for you. I would try
it, then test each of the applications that has a folder there, and if
you find any objections, move it all back.

There's also 180 MB of downloads. Hadn't realised that was
contributing so much, but presumably no problem at all in simply
changing my default download locatio to somewhere in D:\Docs?

Downloads are things you need only keep if you want them for future use
(eg if you download a program's installation file, and want to have it
ready for a future use. So you can copy things away from there to any
backup store you want