Really need help... Computer has 2 drives

Unfortunately some people are not as accurate as you are when specifying to where they should be located. That's the weakness- get that wrong, and you can be in dire straits, to which a number of threads bear witness.

My practice has been to leave Windows My Documents section alone. In my data partition, I make all desired data folders. In most but not all cases, I have re-educated software utilities, programs, etc. to save their stuff, to save their downloads, etc., into designated folders residing in my data partition.

If you don't mind me saying so -- you're kinda making a problem where there probably isn't one.

Let me get silly for a moment. Suppose you have an SSD with 64GBs of space, right? But you have videos, pictures, and songs. To the tune of 2 TBs. There's NO WAY you're storing all that crap on your system HDD.

So don't.

Ignore that the system offers you nice little folders. I do. I ripped all my DVDs and put them on an external HDD.



When I ripped them, I either sent them to that folder on the HDD or dragged them there from the desktop. Boom, done. My photos are stored with Google Photos. My music is both stored locally (I have 512 SSD), a copy files on an HDD, and they're backed up to Google and Apple.

Those Windows folders where they're supposed to go? Outside of music they're a ghost town. I do use Documents but have Google back them up too. (Documents take up little room.)

Am I misunderstanding your situation? (By the way, most of that storage is free. Only the Apple backups cost me... but then that costs $20 a year to do so. Or it comes free with Apple Music.)

Looks like E: is empty so you are not using at all Jesse.

Hi Jesse -

Don't forget to backup both drives.
Sometimes, people forget because you are splitting the Data and OS.

Jessie as I see it there are two approaches here.

1) You create your own folders on E: and the navigate or steer data to these folders


2) You continue to use the Window libraries (documents, pics, etc) and other location (downloads, desktop) but tell Windows you want to locate them on E:


Which approach do you want to use?