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| 1465839 | 2020-01-01 00:20:00 | I have a Games folder of 33GB on my SSD "A" drive which I want to move to "C" 1TB drive. Which is the best way of doing this please.? Any traps.? | Pato (2463) | ||
| 1465840 | 2020-01-01 00:46:00 | Cut - paste. That should take care of most of it. Steam or some MS may need the game configs updated. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1465841 | 2020-01-01 00:56:00 | Thanks. It was on Steam but the recent lightening strikes we had took out both my drives. I don't use the flight program much and was going to delete it but thought I would just move it to free up space on the ssd. |
Pato (2463) | ||
| 1465842 | 2020-01-01 01:49:00 | Safest Way esp if installed files are there is to right click and hold down the right Button, drag to new location, the wording Move {Folder Name} will appear, this redirects the contents within windows links to the new location ( Usually remaps them) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1465843 | 2020-01-01 02:02:00 | Thanks. I did it with the cut/paste method. Took about 30mins. I guess your method would have been faster and safer.? | Pato (2463) | ||
| 1465844 | 2020-01-01 04:03:00 | Thanks. I did it with the cut/paste method. Took about 30mins. I guess your method would have been faster and safer.? Maybe not faster, but moving non system files are generally not a problem. If however they are default system files, ( or contain links - see below) simply cutting / paste WILL cause all sorts of problems. The following is one way to relocate the above mentioned folders correctly ( the article says Vista but the same applies for vista-W10 ) moving-your-personal-data-folders-in-windows (www.howtogeek.com) There are programs that will also move the folders and make sure all internal (symbolic links) are remapped correctly. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1465845 | 2020-01-01 19:36:00 | Thanks. I did it with the cut/paste method. Took about 30mins. I guess your method would have been faster and safer.? Same thing. Windows knows to move associated files too then. |
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