No location tab shown on some folders inside User/username/

I want to move the User Data folder of Kodi to SD drive . The userdata folder is located in C drive under Users/username/Appdata/roaming/kodi However when I right click on folder and chose properties , the location tab is missing so I cant move it using this method. There is a "send to" option but I am not sure what that does. Is there another way to do this ? Tks

Thanks for the link. It looks like I can't do it ( last para under information) because I have a Windows tablet with a plug in SDD card. That's too bad.

Tts too bad I cant do this easily within Windows .

However on Kodi forums some have done this by using symbolic links . Something like

mklink /J Link Target. Still need to read up more before trying .

Try3 said:

SportFlyer,

Just to avoid any further misunderstandings, the folder you are trying to work on is not a "user folder" as far as Windows is concerned and that is why it does not have a Location tab.

You are right to look at the Kodi forums because you have a good chance of somebody both being able to describe a solution such as mklink and to be able to confirm that they have done it & it works.

For a different scenario, I used to use mklink to redirect calls to a folder and it worked correctly without any side-effects,

Code:

mklink /j E:\Audio\Music F:\Audio\Music

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so I would not be surprised if that is the solution you need as well. But other Kodi users in the Kodi forums are your best guides on this.

Best of luck,
Denis

Can I assume that in your case : F: \Audio/Music contains the data and E:/Audio/Music is empty?

in other word I should move/copy all the info in the original location to new location and then empty the contents of Original before making the link ?

Try3 said:

SportFlyer,

"Can I assume that in your case : F:\Audio\Music contains the data and E:\Audio\Music is empty?"

Yes, F:\Audio\Music contained the data whilst the non-existent folder E:\Audio\Music was what I wanted it to appear to the system as. I just put some test contents in F:\Audio\Music before starting so I could see that it was working before copying the huge number of real files to it.

The difference between your task and mine was that I was not trying to alter a folder that already existed and that was in use by an application. I do not know if the application might cause some unexpected problems which is why I remain convinced that guidance from the Kodi forums will be best.,

Having said that, if I was doing the job I would use this procedure -
0 Make a system image so you can get back to square 1 if it all goes wrong
1 Reboot to ensure no stray temporary files could get in the way
2 Make hidden & system files visible in File explorer
3 RoboCopy the entire contents of the Kodi folder to an interim location [RoboCopying is the copying method most likely to preserve folder-file properties that Kodi might need, not that I know what these might be]
4 Do the MkLink command
5 Add a test file to the MkLinked destination folder by going to it directly [not via the link] then go to it using the link to make sure it all appears to be working properly.
6 RoboCopy the entire contents of the interim location to wherever you have MkLinked the original to
7 [poss reboot again but I cannot think of any rational explanation for why I would do so]
8 Run Kodi to see if it all works

Best of luck,
Denis

Tks for the procedure .