Vista - Redirecting my Documents folder, any disadvantages ?

> See this link from my website Robert. This will tell you how to do it.


Sorry, but I didn't find it, can you post a direct link?

thanks, Robert

There is one big disadvantage -- Windows could (and has been known to)
"throw a wobbly" when this is done, even though it doesn't involve any
registry-hacking or other tricks. I would be more inclined to simply
'copy' My Documents to another drive as a backup. That could prove to be
a lifesaver in the event of a virus infection or some other disaster,
and makes much more sense since, as you say, disk space is not an issue
for you.

Sorry Robert my fault I forgot to add the link:-(

http://www.winuser.co.uk/windows_xp_...ault_loca.html


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"Robert Fuchs" <bobfox@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sorry Robert my fault I forgot to add the link:-(
thanks, that's the way I have done it, but it isn't exactly how I want it to
do.
I want to move the complete C:\Users folder to a different disk.
The way you show it is pure horror, because you have to do it for each
folder and for each user.
(And it does not even work for each folder.)

thanks, Robert

I'm sorry the instructions weren't to your liking. I'm not exactly sure, but
AFAIK you can't move the users folder in the way you describe. My article is
written simply for anyone wanting to move the My Document folder for a
single user, not multiple users.

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"Robert Fuchs" <bobfox@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm sorry the instructions weren't to your liking. I'm not exactly sure,Never mind, it's not *your* fault ;-)
Tonight I'll be going to install W7 - but I guess that it won't work there
either...

regards, Robert

There's a way in Disk Manager to mount a disk on an empty NTFS directory.
It seems you could redirect "c:\users" to another hard disk in this way.
Then all your user directories could be on the other disk, but I haven't
figured out how to get to an empty "c:\users" yet.

Earle

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