[nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7

[John G Heim]

I think it can be done via folder redirection. The location of the My Documents folder and may others is a registry key. You can set it via group policy editor or regedit. Folder redirection is usually used with roaming profiles so that yur My Docuuments folder and the like are not part of your roaming profile. But I know folder redirection can be used with local profiles too. 

On Aug 29, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Nicole B. Torcolini Home wrote:

> No. Data and storage files for programs don't work that way. If you have an
> Outlook storage file, you cannot point Outlook to a shortcut to it; you have
> to point it to the actual file. Same goes for other programs. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Jim Barbour
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:42 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
> 
> Couldn't Fred move the folders to the D drive and then create shortcuts to
> them on the C drive?
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Fred Wurtzel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> ok, I was fraid of that.  Sometimes I simply want life to be simple. 
>> (smile)
>> 
>> 
>> Warm Regards,
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Nicole B. Torcolini Home
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:01 PM
>> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
>> 
>> You need to go into the settings of each respective program and tell 
>> it where to find the folders. I would copy rather than moving them and 
>> not delete the original copy until you know that everything is working.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Fred Wurtzel
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:23 AM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
>> 
>> Hello List,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have a Win 7 machine with a single hard drive partitioned into 2 
>> unevenly divided parts (c: and D:-).  I want to move my dropbox, my 
>> outlook message and my iTunes file folders to the other section, from 
>> c: to d:.  I wonder if I simply copy and move the folders if Windows 
>> will reassign the files to the new folder locations, namely Dropbox, 
>> Outlook and iTunes will still save properly into the new folder location?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Without trying to be redundant, if Dropbox now saves files into a 
>> folder such as c:\Dropbox, and I move the folder to now be d:\Dropbox, 
>> will it save properly into the new folder location?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Warm Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
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