Windows 10: How to send data to another drive when one is almost full, and using a second drive.

I have recently bought a 1TB ssd for my desktop and my smaller ssd that I use for all my data is around halfway full. I was wondering if it was possible to create a threshold for my data to be sent to the newer drive when it hits that limit. I've also been trying to figure out if having data in the second drive will affect opening stuff in my desktop and how to set up my second drive to work like the first.

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Directing data to a second drive ?

To direct data to a second drive I thought you opened File Explorer > This PC > then right clicked (for example) Music > Properties and changed the Location.

However I can also open File Explorer > This PC > then left click Documents which displays Music along with other the folders.
1) If I right click the Documents folder & change the Location, will that also change the Music & other folders listed within Documents?
2) Why are the Music & other folders listed in Documents when they are already listed under This PC?
File Explorer also shows Music under Quick Access. That’s 3 occurrences I’m looking at. Does it make a difference which one I use to change the Location?

Recently I came across this method which looks like it does the same thing, but does it?
How to Change the Default Hard Drive for Saving Documents and Apps in Windows 10

Some online comments suggested creating a separate folder for each user account and make the new folders as subfolders of the user account folder. I am the only user. Is there some advantage of creating a user folder?

I've never used a second drive for storage & any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

Optical Drive Issue

Hi Jerry, you're welcome.

Here's mine after I rt clk'd on my Documents Folder like you show in Scrsht 11:




I'd like to wait until you reply to my question in Scrsht 12, if it is a remnant of the process try deleting the one on the dsktp and see if the one in send to also disappears. If it stays in send to, test it, and if you're still having problems I'd suggest you could go back to: Option One: To Add or Remove Items in Send To context menu for Your Account (current user) and do Step 3 to remove it and start over using Step 4 but be very careful of your steps in creating the shortcut and be sure you d&d that shortcut to the send to part of the address.

I'm busy today and I probably won't be back until the evening.

 

Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD