Comments on: How to relocate user profile folder to other drive in windows 7 http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7 Tips about Clearcase Unix Linux/Ubuntu and Others Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Braedon http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-698 Braedon Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:20:52 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-698 I tried dannyboy's method and I made sure no files were failed however now whenever I try to log on it's stuck at preparing desktop and once it loads it says I've been logged onto the default profile for the system. How can I fix this? Please help! I tried dannyboy’s method and I made sure no files were failed however now whenever I try to log on it’s stuck at preparing desktop and once it loads it says I’ve been logged onto the default profile for the system. How can I fix this? Please help!

]]> By: Mauricio http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-697 Mauricio Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:11:56 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-697 A few warnings if you do this. 1-. Never use system restore. It will @#$@ up the symlink and you'll have to create another user. 2-. Never use check disk with Windows running. It will corrupt the user and you'll have to create a new one. I think the easiest solution to everything is to reallocate the user libraries to a different drive. Using symlinks causes more problems than it's worth. There are so many thing that can ruin your user when it's set up this way. I've had to recreate my user about 4 times in 2 years. May not sound bad but sometimes it's a pain because in most cases you need to reinstall software and reconfigure many things. It's not as easy as the article suggest in step 6. A few warnings if you do this.
1-. Never use system restore. It will @#$@ up the symlink and you’ll have to create another user.
2-. Never use check disk with Windows running. It will corrupt the user and you’ll have to create a new one.

I think the easiest solution to everything is to reallocate the user libraries to a different drive. Using symlinks causes more problems than it’s worth. There are so many thing that can ruin your user when it’s set up this way.

I’ve had to recreate my user about 4 times in 2 years. May not sound bad but sometimes it’s a pain because in most cases you need to reinstall software and reconfigure many things. It’s not as easy as the article suggest in step 6.

]]> By: Eddy http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-595 Eddy Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:56:59 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-595 Forgot to mention that (in alternative 2) the original c: location MUST be in a renamed folder, so it is still located on c:, but under another folder. For instance c:\user\Eddy-AppData Forgot to mention that (in alternative 2) the original c: location MUST be in a renamed folder, so it is still located on c:, but under another folder. For instance c:\user\Eddy-AppData

]]> By: Eddy http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-594 Eddy Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:36:09 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-594 In each user folder is a hidden folder called AppData (c:\users\[username]\AppData). Enable hidden files to see this folder (or just enter the foldername in the address bar). This folder (surpisingly) contains a lot of application data. Thus this folder should best be kept on your current system drive (on c:). If you reinstall windows, most of these files should be created again. And if apps are not installed during the second install, unneeded files are taking up space on your data drive. I know 2 solutions for this: Move all file WITHIN the user folder (for instance c:\users\[username\pictures). The appdata (and some other folders you're not using) will remain on c: or 2. Make a link of c:\user\[username] (like proposed). But also make a link d:\users\[username]\AppData back to the original c: location. Note: Some apps write their data files in appdata (like outlook). The best solution is to move these files explicitly to you data drive. Outlook lets you create another pst file. Or you could move the file. If outlook is started, it will ask you to point to the file. In each user folder is a hidden folder called AppData (c:\users\[username]\AppData). Enable hidden files to see this folder (or just enter the foldername in the address bar). This folder (surpisingly) contains a lot of application data. Thus this folder should best be kept on your current system drive (on c:). If you reinstall windows, most of these files should be created again. And if apps are not installed during the second install, unneeded files are taking up space on your data drive.

I know 2 solutions for this:
Move all file WITHIN the user folder (for instance c:\users\[username\pictures). The appdata (and some other folders you're not using) will remain on c:

or

2. Make a link of c:\user\[username] (like proposed). But also make a link d:\users\[username]\AppData back to the original c: location.

Note: Some apps write their data files in appdata (like outlook). The best solution is to move these files explicitly to you data drive. Outlook lets you create another pst file. Or you could move the file. If outlook is started, it will ask you to point to the file.

]]> By: james http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-589 james Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:02:55 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-589 Just tried ohdannyboy and imadman's version of this and it worked without any problems or errors, but still early days! Cheers for posting. Just tried ohdannyboy and imadman’s version of this and it worked without any problems or errors, but still early days! Cheers for posting.

]]> By: How to relocate User profile to different partition http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-579 How to relocate User profile to different partition Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:45:39 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-579 [...] successfully (and invisibly) done this on Windows 7 64 by using instructions on this forum thread: How to relocate user profile folder to other drive in windows 7 : Tips5 Note: ignore the main article! scroll down to the comment from "ohdannyboy on December 4th, [...] [...] successfully (and invisibly) done this on Windows 7 64 by using instructions on this forum thread: How to relocate user profile folder to other drive in windows 7 : Tips5 Note: ignore the main article! scroll down to the comment from "ohdannyboy on December 4th, [...]

]]> By: Laurie http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-573 Laurie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:07:49 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-573 I followed ohdannyboy's instructions & though they are excellent it didn't work for my case. It will work when the target drive has the same letter under the Recovery Environment as in your live system. In my case the target drive is T: You can create a link to D: (the drive letter in RE) but the link won't work when you go live. You can't create a link to T:\... because T: doesn't exist. I got around it by renaming the drive in diskpart in RE(to T:) but I guess using SUBST would work and be easier. Thanks Laurie I followed ohdannyboy’s instructions & though they are excellent it didn’t work for my case. It will work when the target drive has the same letter under the Recovery Environment as in your live system. In my case the target drive is T: You can create a link to D: (the drive letter in RE) but the link won’t work when you go live. You can’t create a link to T:\… because T: doesn’t exist. I got around it by renaming the drive in diskpart in RE(to T:) but I guess using SUBST would work and be easier.

Thanks

Laurie

]]> By: Philip Ingram http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-572 Philip Ingram Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:58:32 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-572 This is really great. I do agree, with the advances in windows7, this should be something present during the install options AND a utility within the system administration options called something like "User Data Migration Tool"...as a matter of fact, someone could probably make a lot of money writing a program to do this for the folks that don't like to tinker. Anyways, I'm gonna see if this works for the "Program Files" folder as well. Don't see why not. Keep you posted. This is really great. I do agree, with the advances in windows7, this should be something present during the install options AND a utility within the system administration options called something like “User Data Migration Tool”…as a matter of fact, someone could probably make a lot of money writing a program to do this for the folks that don’t like to tinker. Anyways, I’m gonna see if this works for the “Program Files” folder as well. Don’t see why not. Keep you posted.

]]> By: Marc http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-565 Marc Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:40:51 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-565 It's a shame that Microsoft makes us tanker around instead of providing a neat standardized solution to the very common wish to separate OS and user data... It’s a shame that Microsoft makes us tanker around instead of providing a neat standardized solution to the very common wish to separate OS and user data…

]]> By: ViBe http://www.tips5.com/how-to-relocate-user-profile-folder-to-other-drive-in-windows-7/comment-page-1#comment-564 ViBe Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:52:15 +0000 http://www.tips5.com/?p=500#comment-564 imadman and ohdannyboy, thanks a lot for the workaround. It works great. imadman and ohdannyboy, thanks a lot for the workaround. It works great.

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