Re: Moving Documents & Settings?

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From: Peter Hutchison (pjhutch_at_NOSPAM.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:34:41 +0100

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:17:31 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

>My main HD on this XP Home PC has two partitions: C = System, D =
>Data. But I got the balance wrong and now, some 2 years later, C is
>getting close to full (9/11 GB) while D is OK (25/44 GB). I
>[b]could[/b] use something like PowerQuest's Drive Image or Partition
>Magic to re-size them, but to be honest I'm a bit nervous of that.
>
>So I was wondering if it was possible to move my entire folder
>C:\Documents and Settings to D:\ ? It's about 800 MB and contains
>some 17,000 files in 1,200 folders.
>
>Is there any major obstacle please? How is it best done? And are there
>any tools to help tidy up the many shortcuts that presently point to
>the present path and would all need changing?
>
>Any advice would be appreciated please.

If you have My Documents shown on Desktop, open Properties of that
icon and select the new destination on D:. It will automatically ask
you to move existing documents from C: to D: for you.
You will have to change shortcuts manually, no easy way to change
them. Also clear out your REcent Documents list via Taskbar
properties.

Peter Hutchison

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