Windows 10: Cannot change location of Documents from C drive to D drive

I want to change the location of "Documents" under "This PC" from the standard 'C:\Users\Guy\Documents' to 'D:\Documents'. The main reason being that the disk capacity of my C drive is quite small. I tried changing the location in properties for 'C:\Users\Guy\Documents' to 'D:\Documents' but I get this which tells me that 'C:\Users\Guy' is read-only....so is there something else I can try. I could setup a Library pointing to 'D:\Documents' I guess?

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I changed my location for 'Documents' and now Drive D has the 'Documents' icon

I've always changed the location of Documents and Downloads to my 'Data' partition. I just did a clean install of Windows 10 and changed Documents location to drive D. Usually the icon for these two folders follows and displays on drive D.

Not sure why it didn't this time, but can you tell me how I can change these 2 folder icons? I know how to change icons, but I don't see these 2 icons in the list of Windows icons.

Thx.

 

My Documents file location set to a second drive. Unable to change file location back.

After installing a second drive I wanted to change the file location of 'Documents'. To do this I went the file properties to change its location from a file on drive C to a file on drive D. However I accidentally select drive D itself instead of the file
within it. Now I cannot change the location of 'Documents', nor can I restore its default location. When I attempt to do so I receive this message: "Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under "D:\System Volume Information". Access is denied."

Looking for any help available.

 

have 1.6 gB free on drive D but drive C is full so why won't it store on drive D: ????

Why won't the computer store or use the 1.7GB drive D ...

Permissions have no role to play here, and I really hope you did not alter the access control lists for your D: drive.

By default, all software stores its data in folders on the C: drive, because every computer has a C: drive (by convention) and a software developer can't know in advance whether any given computer will have additional partitions.

Most data must stay on the C: drive. That includes Windows itself and all components of Windows, including updates. However, your personal data (documents, music, etc.) can be moved to a different partition - like your D: drive - and you can set your D:
drive to be the default location for all future data of the same type. The default location for your personal data must be an internal drive (so not a flash drive.)

You can move these personal data folders from C: to D: ( and it's easy to do

Documents

Downloads

Music

Pictures

Videos

There are a few additional data folders that can be moved, but virtually all of your personal data likely resides in those folders. There are several ways to move your data, and I suppose everyone has their favorite method, so I'll show you one way.

Before you start, if you manually altered the permissions on your D: drive, do yourself a favor: backup everything you have on the D: drive to an external drive, then delete D: and re-create it. It will be created with the default permissions.

I'll start with the Documents folder -- C:\Users\your user name \Documents

1. Right-click on the folder and choose Properties from the context menu
2. On the Location tab, change the drive letter in the box from C: to D:
3. Don't change anything else.
4. Click on the Move button. You'll be asked if you also want to move the contents of the Documents folder to the new location. Of course, you'll say 'yes.'

(Windows asks that question because you can, if you wish, leave existing data on the C: drive and move all future data to the D: drive.)

After you click on the Move button, two things happen: 1) a new folder is created, namely D:\Users\your user name\Documents which is from now on the default location for all your documents, and 2) all your existing documents are moved to the new folder.

Do the same for the other folders.

You can also move the Desktop folder C:\Users\your user name\Desktop. What you see on the desktop is actually a combination of three separate folders, one of which you can move.

If you use Microsoft Office Outlook, you can move your message store (the .pst file) but you need to do that from within Outlook.

Don't try to move any other folders!

Now you can backup C: and D: independently. That's a huge advantage.