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Old 05-12-2009, 11:40 PM
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User Documents - New location?

Is it possible to move the My Documents folder to another drive?
It was allot easier in Windows XP!!
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Old 05-12-2009, 11:50 PM
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Re: User Documents - New location?

nowt wrote:[color=blue]
> Is it possible to move the My Documents folder to another drive?
> It was allot easier in Windows XP!![/color]

Not much different in Vista.
Right-Click on the Documents Folder, choose Properties, same as XP, and
click on the Location tab.
There, that was hard, wasn't it?

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Old 05-13-2009, 12:00 AM
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Re: User Documents - New location?

nowt wrote:[color=blue]
> Is it possible to move the My Documents folder to another drive?
> It was allot easier in Windows XP!![/color]

Also be aware that Vista does NOT use the "My" prefix. Your documents
folder is located at C:/Users/{Your User Name}/Documents.
If you are trying to move the "My Documents" folder you can't because it
is not a folder and doesn't contain your documents. It's a junction
point only.

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Old 05-13-2009, 08:20 AM
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Re: User Documents - New location?

You do it basically the same way you did in XP. See this link from my
website:
[url]http://www.winuser.co.uk/windows_vista_faq/72_move_documents_folder_to_new_location.html[/url]

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