Windows 10: Moving the "Pictures" folder to a new drive

Hello,

I recently installed a new harddrive and wanted to move the "Pictures", "Documents" etc. folders to that drive. I tried just going into the "Pictures" folders properties and selected my new drive without a folder so I moved it from "C:\users\account" to just the new drive "E:". This in turn seemed to just create a shortcut to all the folders on that drive when really what I was after was moving the entire "Pictures" folder to that new drive like you would any other folder. Is there an actual way to this and if I try to move the "Pictures" folder now will it move all my files on that drive?
I'm just concerned that all the files on my new drive is now associated with that folder and that moving it would case all the files on the new harddrive to also move in turn.

Thanks for any help given!

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Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Cannot move "Pictures" Folder

Let me first apologize for this long thread. I wanted to be accurate with the issue at hand. I have recently installed a new hard drive, with the intent of moving the "Pictures" folder to it, and using it primarily for this purpose given that my current
disk is nearly full (due to photos). I have tried to move the folder by selecting it, opening properties -- location tab, and move. Current hard drive is "E:\Users\Christine\Pictures" and so I created a folder on my new G drive as "G:\Pictures", selected this
folder and started the move. This moved 2 terabytes of data (the size of my original pictures folder), but when it completed, it stated that the operation failed, possibly because a file name had too many characters (I am sorry, I do not have the exact wording
but that is close). It stated the operation was "Cancelled by the user", but that is not accurate -- I did not cancel it at all. When I look at my G drive, the drive appears to contain all the pictures I intended to move. At least, when comparing what is still
in the original E drive location, and the G drive, the setup looks identical. I compared these by adjusting the screen size to look the same on two monitors, and scrolled through the folders, mirroring the action. Every row contains the same folder, and the
apparent same images in each folder. When I open the "Properties" of each respective folder, I notice that they have the near the same size (2.19 TB each but 2,417,043,883,896 bytes on E and 2,417,043,877,748 bytes on G) . I did receive one message that a
file could not be copied and I needed to skip this file. The E: drive Contains 699,744 Files, 29,285 Folders and G: contains 699,743 Files, 29,285 Folders, so I only lost one photo, apparently (I can live with that!). When I open each respective folder, the
original E: drive folder still has a "locations" tab -- indicating that it can be moved, but the new G: drive folder does not have a "locations" tab. I suspect, then, that the computer still sees the E: drive folder as the primary pictures folder and would
store new picture in it. Can I somehow "tell" the computer (perhaps registry edit), that the G: drive "Pictures" folder is the new default so that I can delete the E: Pictures folder? Thank you for looking at this and offering suggestions/solutions. I certainly
appreciate it.

 

Moving folders with pictures

I figured this would go here.

So, in Windows XP, is there any way to move folders with pictures, and still preserve the order of the pictures? When you move it rearranges everything into alphabetical order, and that's not really helpful seeing as I don't name my files alphabetically.