My Asus netbook running Windows XP has a small solid disk drive and the C partition is nearly full. How do I move the My Pictures directory from the C partition to D? (Programs are already on the D partition.)
TweakUI will do it. If you run TweakUI and got to Desktop > Specail Folders you will get a pull down menu of all the special folders. You will see the current folder underneath. Select change location and point it to the new location of drive D:. It does work. It is one of the first things I do whenever I install Windows XP, either my own or someone else's. Aftger making all these changes you do need to re-boot for them to take effect.
Stuart
Why not mode the whole of My Document and My Pictures and My everything else will go with it. From Windows Explorer right click My Documents > Properties. Type in the path of the My Documents on D: and click Move. Doing it this way changes the Internal link so D:\My Documents becomes the default instead of C:\My Documents.
Stuart
Thank you StuartS for your suggestion. My Documents was already in D: (I can't remember when or how I achieved that - it was some time ago). The properties of My Pictures shows it to be in C: and does not have the option of "Move" or of amending the target location.
In that case move the My Pictures folder to My Document just like any other folder then use TweaukUI to change the default from drive c: to drive D: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...
Stuart
If My Documents is on the D: partition & you're installing all your programs to D:, why is the C: partition filling up?
Thank you StuartS. I've tried several times to do what you suggest and the nearest I've got to what I want is to have My Pictures as a directory in My Computer > D: and have deleted the old My Pictures from Desktop (C:). So the good news is my C drive now has more free space. However I can't get My Pictures to locate under Desktop i.e. on a par with My Documents (target = D:\Documents and Settings) - by that I mean when viewing the Windows Explorer folders pane. I've tried using Tweak UI and also by moving and copying / pasting directories. I guess what I want just isn't possible in Windows XP.
Rider, it was because My Pictures was on Desktop which I hadn't realised was n the C drive.
TweakUI will do it. If you run TweakUI and got to Desktop > Specail Folders you will get a pull down menu of all the special folders. You will see the current folder underneath. Select change location and point it to the new location of drive D:. It does work. It is one of the first things I do whenever I install Windows XP, either my own or someone else's. Aftger making all these changes you do need to re-boot for them to take effect.
Stuart
Problem solved! In my Tweak UI listing, the only item in Desktop is First Icon; Special Folders is in My Computer.
Through Tweak UI I relocated Desktop to D: I then created a new directory for My Pictures in Desktop and via Tweak UI relocated the Special Folder My Pictures to it. And, after rebooting, all is now exactly as I want it.
Many thanks, Stuart, for your patience in guiding me. I'm sure others will be interested in this solution.
