[nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7

[Dave]

Your looking for symbolic links. This is available as of windows vista. Use the command mklink from a command prompt. 

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On Aug 29, 2012, at 7:59 PM, "Nicole B. Torcolini Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> 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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