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Moving the 'My Documents' folder (and others) to a different hard disk
Hi Folks!
Having thoroughly sanitised the 5TB hard disk (subject of a couple of other threads on TenForums - see 5TB showing 561.53GB, Encrypting the Windows System Disk and Drive encryption), I'd like to move the following folders from their current default location on C: drive to the data drive, D:
EDIT: Data drive D: (referred to above) is no longer single partition but split into two W: drive for Windows documents and L: drive for Linux documents.
Any references to D: below should now refer to W: (ignoring the Linux partition for the present)
C: Desktop
C: Documents
C: Downloads
C: Favourites
C: Links
C: Music
C: Pictures
C: Videos
Is it as simple as this ...
File Explorer > C: drive > Users > [username folder], right click on Documents > Properties
In the 'Location' tab, change the location from C:\Users\[username]\Documents to D:\Users\[username]\Documents then click 'Apply', click 'OK' and close the Properties box?
Then repeat the above process for the downloads/mucic/favourites/photos/videos/etc folders??
Or is there a better way to do it?
If there is a different way to do it, what are the pros & cons of each method?
I'm planning on having an area on the data disk for Windows documents (W: drive) and an area on the data disk for Linux documents (L: drive).
Given that the disk is 4.5TB (formatted), I was thinking of 3.5TB for Windows and 1TB for Linux as I'd do most of my computing stuff (w/p, pictures, video, etc) in Windows.
Sound like a plan? Any snags I haven't thought of?
I'd then like to encrypt the data partitions (or if having both the Windows and the Linux partitions encrypted would cause a conflict, just encrypt the data partition for the Windows documents and files).
VeraCrypt can encrypt the Windows data and automatically mount D: drive when Windows boots?
Never used encryption before - hence the concerns.
Art
Last edited by ArthurDent; 01 Jul 2020 at 11:54.