Comments on: How To Move My Documents Folder To A Different Drive

By: Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:24:36 +0000

One option people might want to consider: http://www.dropbox.com where you can get 2 free GB’s of synchronized, online storage (can grow to 5 free GB’s based on referrals you sign up … there are paid plans after that. Comes with a dropbox application which seamlessly integrates into Windows Explorer, making that online dropbox just another drive, albeit remote, on your computer. You can also share folders you create with other invited users and collaborate on … whatever. So, it’s not a lot of space (at least free space), but then … you can also set up multiple accounts (With different email addresses) … and with some selective backups of important files, folders, etc., it’s a cheap way to get some remote protection of stuff you just would not want to lose.

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By: Smapdi

Smapdi — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:46:22 +0000

RE: andy
“This information is considered pointless by authorities as when a hard drive crashes”

Then move it to a different drive entirely or a network drive, which is the reason this ability is built into windows in the first place.

I feel sorry for the author. A bunch of people screw up their documents path becasue they are clueless and blame him for it.

Only if the authorities had been around to save us from this carnage.

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By: Saikat

Saikat — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:21:42 +0000

From Microsoft Support: Restore the My Documents Folder to Its Default Location To restore the My Documents folder to its default location, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then point to My Documents. 2. Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties. 3. Click Restore Default, and then click OK. 4. In the Move Documents box, click Yes to move your documents to the new location, or click No to leave your documents in the original location.

By: DEMI

DEMI — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:16:13 +0000

HELP PLEASE!! I AM GOING CRAZY, I JUST TRIED TO DO THIS AND ALL MY DOCUMENTS ARE GONE!! I WAS AT STEP 3 AND WHEN IT ASKED IF I WANTED TO MOVE ALL THE DOCUMENTS TO DRIVE D I CLICKED NO BY ACCIDENT AND NOW I OPENED THE FOLDER AND THEY’RE ALL GONE! HELP PLEASE :’(!

By: andy

andy — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:36:41 +0000

This information is considered pointless by authorities as when a hard drive crashes, usually it’s not fussy about which partitions get splattered…….

Look on the internet to see what I mean.

I once had 8 partitions on a 40Gb hard drive lol……………………………:P

I won’t go into detail heheheh.

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By: youthworker

youthworker — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:40:11 +0000

I have done this already, but for somewhat different reasons. I bought a 40gB laptop a few years back. Turns out the 40gig was 2×20Gb, so after a while I had messages telling me I was almost out of storage space, since everything- my documents, program files, OS- was, by default, on the one drive. I shifted all users’ “my documents” and shared documents to the D drive, thus sharing the load. I just wish it was set up like this to begin with.

By: lawiz

lawiz — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:27:49 +0000

simply amazing..
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By: Bruce M

Bruce M — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:42:26 +0000

You should update the article so that it is clear to people that moving the “My Documents” folder will not safeguard against hard drive failure. Even if you partition your hard drive, there is a possibilty of the hard drive getting phisycally damaged. And this does happen a lot.

There are many ways to backup your data: external hard drive, CD, DVD, USB drive, etc. Choose whatever method, but the takeaway message to avoid data loss should be to backup your data and not just move it to a separate drive.

By: double fake

double fake — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:24:44 +0000

Okey this tip sucked, actually it was a good tip in tougth but it has messed up things on my vista instalation now, since it prompted about making the file witch was not mentioned in this article i selected just the drive d as the new location……Big mistake. Now it semes to be stuck there and trying to revert it to deafault in order to fix it does not work either. In other words its stuck! at the a wrong location.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:21:00 +0000

A separate external disk is of course the best solution. But backing it up to a separate partition is the first solution for people who don’t have an external drive or any other media. Especially in my country, for normal use very few people have external drives. Here we have 260GB HDD which is sufficient for normal storage, so there’s no need to go for an external one.Regular backups of the D Drive folder to other media like CDs is always recommended.For instance, I have mine on a pen drive.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:13:44 +0000

This is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Keeping your data on a separate partition makes backups easier and faster. It also allows you to easily reinstall or upgrade your OS without worrying about the data.

By: Jordi

Jordi — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:40:36 +0000

Windows Vista is much more powerful when moving user’s folders. Since “My Images”, “My Music”, etc. are out of My Documents, you can move them as well to another location. And what’s more: you can even move the desktop folder! This is really useful, since most of the people like to keep their stuff there instead of My Documents.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:22:41 +0000

Of course you can. But the My Documents folder is the default location for your document files etc. You will notice that it is one of the options that comes up when you pop in an external media or when you want to open or something. Also it is one of the default folders given in the folder sidebar (Other Places) of XP. Makes things a lot easier.

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:31:14 +0000

Microsoft’s TweakUI utility does a nice job of this, as well. Under My Computer/Special Folders (on the XP version–I don’t have a Vista machine handy), the interface is a little more straightforward to my eyes.

Plus, you can change a bunch of other things, too, like the shortcut arrow.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:29:45 +0000

I am sorry not understand: why not create a folder first on a partition

By: Bruce M

Bruce M — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:58:30 +0000

One of the reasons you gave to move the folder is because of a system crash. Are you saying that the D drive will not crash? Or is it less likely to crash?

I thought that the best way to handle hard drive crashes was to have backups.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:37:13 +0000

stupid question: why move it? you can not create a new one?

By: marcel

marcel — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:44:36 +0000

Often wondered if it was possible but postponed to check it out; but sometimes problmes right themself
Thanks a lot