Windows 10: Can I separate -each- users folder on distinct drives ?

Discus and support Can I separate -each- users folder on distinct drives ? in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Hi, What I'm looking for is not to simply change the whole userdata to another drive, but to create separate drives for each users, and have their... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by mbe, Jul 11, 2016.

  1. MBE
    mbe Win User

    Can I separate -each- users folder on distinct drives ?


    Hi,


    What I'm looking for is not to simply change the whole userdata to another drive, but to create separate drives for each users, and have their application data, my doc, etc folders on their own drives.


    Sadly, from looking at environment variables though I think it's not possible.. What do you think ?


    My goal is to manage drive space in logical partitions. For example, I don't want to have the whole userdata directly on D: 's root, since nothing would prevent anyone from creating D:/new_folder for example..


    Any idea ?

    :)
     

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    aligatrjoe, Jul 11, 2016
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  3. GrrrrrRHK Win User
    1 PC, 2 PC Users, Each with Own Onedrive Accounts

    I have found that Windows 10 out of the box will point each user to the same local Onedrive folder structure.

    I expected each user to have their own Onedrive folder structure.

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    GrrrrrRHK, Jul 11, 2016
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