Windows 10: Moving Folder Locations from SSD onto D Drive

So i moved my documents, pictures, videos, and music folders from my ssd to my D drive.

This is the process i followed: right click folder, click properties, click the location tab, click move, select the D drive, click ok.

What I failed to do, was create a NEW folder within the D drive (labelled either documents, pictures, videos, etc) to move the folder too. I misread the instructions, and just assumed I was putting the folder INTO the D drive, and that the folder itself would be moved to the D drive, and that I didn't need to create a folder with the same name as the folder I was moving. I hope that makes sense!

Anyway, now I have 4 separate D drives listed in my PC menu. Pretty sure underneath it all this is messing stuff up. Any help would be appreciated. Pretty concerned at this point that this is a permanent error.

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System Memory Utilization

Hi Bert,

You cannot extend your C Drive into your D Drive, since they are physically different drives

If your 128GB SSD is full, then this defeats the purpose of having an SSD. An SSD drive needs to be minimum 1/3 free for it to function optimally . . .

Moving apps and programs over onto your D drive can and does bring its own problems as most software is designed to run on the system drive

Honestly, if you have that many applications, you might need to think of purchasing a larger SSD

One thing you can and should do is move all your Data over onto the D Drive

For each of your library folders (Documents, Pictures, Downloads . .. etc.)

Simply drag them over onto the D Drvie to move their location

This might free up some much needed space on your SSD

 

Failed to Build list of regular subdirectories under "D:System Volume Information"

Was trying to move my documents folder to my hard drive instead of my ssd and I accidently made the moved location \ instead of \documents. I can't restore to default location because now I'm getting said error message

 

Welcome to the forum.

First I would copy my data to an offline source just to be sure. Maybe you actually haven't added your data yet. Once done go to your d: drive and right click on specific folder, click on properties, you should see a "Location" tab. You should be able to click on Restore Default. If you don't see Location tab you are not on right folder.

 

As Caledon Ken suggested, just reverse the process and move them back to the Default Location, then create your folders and Move them properly