Moving "MyVideos" To Another Drive?

[(PeteCresswell)]

Seemed easy: right click drag/drop, specify "Move", and Windows
moves it and it's contents.

The joker is that it comes up with the Read-only attribute set.

Properties | General | Attributes | Read-only allows the checkbox
tb cleared, but upon re-opening the props dialog it's back to
being checked.

Funny thing is that I can drag drop a file to the folder and it
gets copied in there ok... but that Read-Only box is still
checked and a program I'm using to record television shows
refuses to accept MyVideos as a storage directory because "You
have no write privileges to the specified folder".

Anybody know how to clear that checkbox?

Some registry entry maybe?

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per (PeteCresswell):

Anybody know how to clear that checkbox?

Maybe I should add that I've Googled how to move MyDocuments.

But this is a little extra twist: I want to leave MyDocuments
where it is and move the subfolder "MyVideos" to the other
device, leaving the rest of MyDocuments where it is.

 

[sgopus]

instead of moving the windows created folder and creating problems, why not
just change the default folder where the program saves the video to the drive
you want, ie create your own folder of Saved videos on the drive where you
want them.

 

[PeteCresswell]

instead of moving the windows created folder and creating problems, why not
just change the default folder where the program saves the video to the drive
you want, ie create your own folder of Saved videos on the drive where you
want them.

That would have been my first choice.

But the program in question (Silicon Dust's TV viewer app - whose name
escapes me right now as I'm supposedly at work...) does not seem to
allow the user to specify a path.

Instead, it presents a list of subdirectories under MyDocuments.

Ultimately, I figure there's got to be a path somethere... but I spent
some time searching the registry and failed to find it.

 

[barak]

Seemed easy: right click drag/drop, specify "Move", and Windows
moves it and it's contents.

The joker is that it comes up with the Read-only attribute set.

Properties | General | Attributes | Read-only allows the checkbox
tb cleared, but upon re-opening the props dialog it's back to
being checked.

Funny thing is that I can drag drop a file to the folder and it
gets copied in there ok... but that Read-Only box is still
checked and a program I'm using to record television shows
refuses to accept MyVideos as a storage directory because "You
have no write privileges to the specified folder".

Anybody know how to clear that checkbox?

Some registry entry maybe?

Hello PeteCresswell,

Please see below, My Viedos plus the rest of them, take care editing the
registry, this informaltion is provided as is, with no responsibitly on my
behalf.


**********************************************************
* Re-Direction Of Special Folders For *
* User And Alluser Profiles In Windows XP *
**********************************************************

Registry Key For User Special Folders
--------------------------------------

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

---- ---- -----
Name Type Value
---- ---- -----
AppData REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Application Data
Cache REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Local
Settings\Temporary Internet Files
Cookies REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Cookies
Desktop REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Favorites REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
History REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Local
Settings\History
Local AppData REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Local
Settings\Application Data
Local Settings REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings
My Music REG_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My
Documents\My Music
My Pictures REG_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My
Documents\My Pictures
My Video REG_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My
Documents\My Videos
NetHood REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\NetHood
Personal REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My Documents
PrintHood REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\PrintHood
Programs REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs
SendTo REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\SendTo
Start Menu REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu
Startup REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
Templates REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Templates

To change the location of these folders, change the %USERPROFILE% to point
to the chosen folder.
Make sure the folder exists first.

Registry Key For AllUser Profile Special Folders
------------------------------------------------

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

---- ---- -----
Name Type Value
---- ---- -----
Common AppData REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data
Common Desktop REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop
Common Documents REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents
Common Favorites REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Favorites
Common Programs REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start
Menu\Programs
Common Start Menu REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu
Common Startup REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
Common Templates REG_EXPAND_SZ %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Templates

Create a REG_SZ value named CommonMusic and set the path
Create a REG_SZ value named CommonPictures and set the path
Create a REG_SZ value named CommonVideo and set the path

Hope this helps.

- barak

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per barak:

Hope this helps.

- barak

Thanks Barak - that was exactly what I was looking for.

Actually, I have a little VB6 program (could just as well be a
..CMD file...) that I wrote to do all my registry customization.

I'll just test those and add them.

Mainly, I try to keep all my "data" off of the system drive and
on some other drive/partition.

 

[Robert Schiele]

Seemed easy: right click drag/drop, specify "Move", and Windows
moves it and it's contents.

The joker is that it comes up with the Read-only attribute set.

Properties | General | Attributes | Read-only allows the checkbox
tb cleared, but upon re-opening the props dialog it's back to
being checked.

Funny thing is that I can drag drop a file to the folder and it
gets copied in there ok... but that Read-Only box is still
checked and a program I'm using to record television shows
refuses to accept MyVideos as a storage directory because "You
have no write privileges to the specified folder".

Anybody know how to clear that checkbox?

Some registry entry maybe?

Why not just change the pointer to that folder with TweakUI? It's easily
done from there, no registry editing required. The url is:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx and
it's free.

Hope this helps.