Windows 10: Moving a Directory to Storage Drive

I'm quite sure many people move a Directory to a Storage Drive so some software will act appropriately, like Pictures for instance. Some computers even come with an SSD and a Storage drive OOTB, but they don't put any Directories on the Storage Drive.

My question is, how stable is it to move something like the Pictures Directory to a Storage Drive? I see how to do it online but don't know how stable it will be with windows 10 Feature Updates? I guess I'll need to try this myself asap but will some give me their experiences.

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Windows 10 - Documents directory moved once , but cannot be moved again.

Hi,

To save space on my C: drive, I moved my Documents directory to another new, otherwise empty drive (G using the right click - properties - location - move
option on the original Documents directory under "This PC". This moved it ok, but I then realised that I had moved everything to the root of the new drive instead of into a new "Documents" directory. I now have a "G:\" item showing under "This
PC" instead of "Documents" but otherwise everything seems to work ok. However, I need to fix this as I also want to move other libraries such as Pictures etc to the G: drive as well.

So, I thought I would undo this by moving it back to where it was then move it again to the new target properly. However, I cannot get this to work.:

• I create a new "Documents" sub directory in my user directory in c:\users.
• I use the right click - properties - location - move on the current location ("G:\" under "This PC") and select the new Documents directory I created in the step above as the new location.
  
• I click "OK" and get the warning message recommending that all files are moved, and I click "OK" again.
• I then get an "access denied" message and nothing is moved.

My user ID is in the administrators group. I have tried this again to another drive, and I have even given my user ID specific full access privileges to the target drive just in case. However, I the same "access denied" issue noted above every time,
and I have discovered the following:

• After I click "OK" on the "Access Denied" message, I check the target directory and it no longer seems to be there.
• I can see the target directory again if I deselect the "Hide protected operating system files" setting for the drive.
• The target drive is set to "Hidden" and seems to have been assigned as a protected operating system directory by the move process. I assume this happens before anything is actually moved and this results in the "access denied" issue.
  

This happens every time. I have created several new test target directories across a few different data only drives. Before I try the move, the directory is not hidden (or seen as a protected operating system directory), but as soon as I try the move,
it is then set as hidden etc and the move fails. I can manually copy files in to these new directories ok but the move process fails every time.

Any ideas?

 

Directory Size Utility

First of all nice utility, Mindweaver!
Second of all, it's so nice to see that this section ain't dead.

I have a few questions/suggestions, maybe you'd want to see ...

• maybe you rename Get Folder button caption to something more intuitive? Add Folder, Get Folder Size, Check Folder Size or something like that?
  
• Could you add subfolder files to the right pane? (it can be a tickbox with include sub dirs)
  
• maybe you also add export list to excel?
  
• there's delete file button maybe you add delete folder button too?
  
• and finally maybe you can add UP button for directories?

 

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