Windows 10: RE: SYSTEM owns User folder on drive D

Folks:

I recently installed Win10 on a C SSD and set a D hard drive for my data. I have assigned default save to be D. FYI, I do have a C:\User\[name]\Documents, Pictures, etc. also. However, I found that on my drive D, there is a D:\[name]\Documents, Pictures, etc. So I included the sub folders into the Library. However, the D:\[user]\Documents folder does exist but I cannot change the permissions at all (Read Only). It is owned by the System. Don't I need to take ownership back to make use of it? But how? Or do I just leave it alone. Right now, all save documents are going to C:\[user]\Documents. Other D:\[user] sub folders, i.e., Pictures and Videos, are writable. What gives?*Confused

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Moving 'Temp' files folder from my C drive to my D drive

Bob,

The configuration of your computer is not unusual - I deliberately use the same configuration for all my computers.

If, as I expect, your C drive is full because of your own files in C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents etc ** then you can "relocate" these user folders to the D drive. See

Relocating user folders in Windows 7 and Windows 10 This is a perfectly normal procedure and is a lot simpler than altering partitions. Relocating your user folders will reduce your C drive usage to about 40GB or less.

** Where you use such facilities as the File explorer, This PC, Documents entry or Libraries you are in fact making use of hidden shortcuts to the folders in C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents etc - it is this path that your own files are actually
stored in by default {until you "relocate" them to a folder of your own choosing on your HDD}.

Keeping the split between C & D drives can be very useful for backing up - C drive is your system drive and D drive is your own collection of files. You can use

System images for your system drive and straightforward file backups for your own files.

Denis

 

Creators Fall Update (1709) failed to install on a PC with a SSD system drive and user profiles located on D: HDD

During upgrade process, system copies some (not all) "ProfilesDirectory" folders located on drive D:\Users to folder C:\$Windows.~BT\NewOS\Users\.

It fails, considering that affected folders on drive D: have more than 2Tb of data while system drive C: has less than 250Gb.

I did some additional research and found that “normal” profiles were not affected. System copies following folders only:

- -“Broken” user profile. Sometimes ago, user profile of USER1 was corrupted. I made a copy of all files in a folder D:\Users\USER1.OLD, then deleted user1 and created new one. After that, I restored all data
from D:\Users\USER1.OLD to D:\Users\USER1, but kept USER1.OLD folder.

- -“Public” folder with huge volume of data.

- -“Default” folders

I have same problem on my two PC with different configuration:

- One platform is Intel based with Core i7 CPU, system SSD 250Gb and D: drive 4TB

- Another platform is AMD based with A8 CPU, system HDD 1Tb and D: drive 2Tb

Both PC has the same Windows 10 Pro 64 version 1703 (15063.936)

Windows on both PC is configured in a way, that user profiles are located on drive D:. And both contains a lot of data in D:\User\Public folder, much more bigger than volume of system drive C:

I’ve already tried to implement all common recommendations:

-Upgrade from clean boot

-System image restore with DISM command

-Windows Updater troubleshooter

However, problem is not solved.