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by vee-kay 244 days ago
In Win10/Win11, you can move your user folders to another partition or folder path.

Right-click on them in Explorer, go to Properties, click on Location tab, and type/select the new path for them, click Move... then that folder and its contents will be moved to new locate.

I've movier following to D: partition as root-level folders: Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Music, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Videos.
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GJim 244 days ago
> you can move your user folders to another partition or folder path

The fact that the default is to auto-magically upload your personal data on to somebody else's box (sorry "the cloud") is fucking insane.

Such things should be opt-in, not opt-out; and certainly not nag-ware.

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Xss3 243 days ago
Prepare to have software and games break or not run at all if you do this. Too many devs rely on the users folder being in default place. Too few use %USERS%.

The proper way to do it without breaking everything is via a symbolic link or junction.

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