Windows 10: New Windows 10 Laptop - want to move 'Documents' folder to D: Drive

Hi Folks,

A bit puzzled.

Long story, short, I have fitted a second (and larger) SSD into my wife's new laptop to store documents/photos/music etc.

Currently C: drive has some stuff on it (very little) by way of documents etc.

I have changed where new documents, etc should be stored [ Settings > System > Storage > 'More Storage Settings' ] then clicked on 'Change where new content is saved' and changed 'Apps', 'Documents', 'Music', Photos', 'Videos', 'TV Shows' and 'Maps' to point to 512GB-SSD (D as shown below, and, creating a simple Word document to test, that's where it was saved.





Question is, I created an image in Paint, then saved it - however it saved it in C:\users\gm\documents\Computer Stuff rather than D: drive as I had been expecting.

I'd also like Downloads to save in D by default.





How can I do this?

Finally, for now (!) do I have to manually move the existing documents, photos, etc from C: to D:??

Cheers

Art

Win 10 Home / 1909 (OS Build 18363.657)

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Turned Hard Drive into Music folder

• Create a folder on the D drive and name it 'Music'
• Move all the files and folders that should be in the Music folder into this new folder
• Then in Quick Access, right click the Windows Music Library, select Properties
• Then on the location Tab, set its location to the new 'Music' folder
• When asked if you want to merge contents - Select 'No'
• Click 'Apply' and 'OK'

If you want you can leave the music folder on the D Drive, or you can then click 'Restore Default' to move it back onto the C Drive

If needs be for the Documents folder, you can perform the same operation by creating a new Documents folder on the D Drive

NOTE: the important step is (5) do not merge the contents . . .

 

Accidentally saved my documents folder to the Hard drive (D without a location

This is a common enough occurrence, here is how to put your My Documents back into a folder:

• Open Windows File Explorer, create a folder called My Documents on your D Drive
• Put whatever files and folder should be in your My Documents folder into that folder
• Click on Quick Access on the left hand side of File Explorer
• On the right hand side right click the My Documents Library Folder and select Properties
• Select the Location Tab and Type D:\My Documents as the location
• When asked if you want to Merge Contents - select No

I hope this Helps!