Comments for How do I change the location of the My Documents folder?

Comment from Peter on 2009-03-15

2009-03-15T21:26:10Z

HELP? I attempted this move (as I found you after looking up and attempting the move through "properties" "move" and it not working), and the same thing happened, a critical stop and the simple words "Cannot Move File". No explanation, no error code, nothing! I have made sure the file is setup to be shared, as well as attempted to change it from "read only" (just in case either mattered), but it still will not move. I am afraid to move individual parts of it because I don't know how (if) My Documents can read from multiple locations - but my c: is almost out of space and I seriously need to move much of my oft accessed files to the new drive I put in. Can you help?

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Comment from David Robinson on 2008-12-22

2008-12-22T11:31:54Z

This worked great the first time around.
Now I have had to rebuild XP as it became unstable and the pesky My Documents on the C drive is back.
I tried moving the new my documents to the D drive then moving all the former "My documents"under that but it has not worked.
I now have both the C drive My Documents that windows explorer defaults to and a new one in the D drive I have to navigate to.

Is there a way to handle the
move after a rebuild? Reattach the D drive My Documents in some way?

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Comment from David Thompson on 2008-09-09

2008-09-09T15:32:36Z

For Vista, trying using WinBubble. It is free. Note that a commercial Vista product called TweakVI (note the 'V' in the name) has a free version available. But WinBubble works great for what I want to do. Google for "WinBubble" or try something like "vista settings tweak" and you'll see lots of programs. I've used TweakVI and WinBubble, and I like WinBubble better.

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Comment from Ann Hardegree on 2008-05-12

2008-05-13T02:45:40Z

I have recently purchased a Toshiba lab top equiped with Windows Vista (use to Wndows XP). Where are the document I save, where is save as tab, what folder do they go to? I have a the present a free trial of Microsoft. Is that worth purchasing or would it be benifical to purchase Windows XP and do away with Windows XP?

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Comment from Eli Coten on 2008-02-23

2008-02-23T22:43:26Z

Another way, which doesn't require TweakUI is to right click on the "real" my Documents folder (by Real I mean the start menu icon, or the desktop icon but NOT a shortcut to My Documents, and NOT the actual location on the disk) usually the easiest way to do this is rely on the one on the start menu as this will be the real folder (assuming you haven't created extra shortcuts to My Documents on your start menu) and click the then you get the option right there to "move".

Simply type in or browse to your new location and click Apply/Ok and Windows will offer you to move all your existing documents to the new location, whilst at the same time updating the registry.

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Comment from annon on 2008-02-23

2008-02-23T18:33:11Z

Can I do the same with the programs folder?

I want all of those in a separate partition.

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Comment from Sam W. on 2008-02-23

2008-02-23T15:57:37Z

I see that TweakUI is for XP. Is there a TweakUI for Vista, or will the above TweakUI work in Vista?

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Comment from SreeKumar on 2008-02-22

2008-02-23T07:30:49Z

Your article is very useful. I used to di it by editing registry. I have two questions
1) Why don't you recommend changing in registry?
will it make any problem? I have done it in many machines.
2) Can I move entire profile (Documents and settings) to D: drive? How?

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Comment from Bill P. Godfrey on 2008-02-22

2008-02-22T13:59:36Z

Thanks for that, but is there a way to move the whole "Documents and Settings" to a second hard disk, rather than just the My Documents?

Many thanks.

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