I have a partitioned hard drive on my Sony Vaio notebook- There's about 14GB on the C drive where all the system files are, and about 40GB on the D drive.
I have all of my schoolwork stored in the "My Documents" folder, and a lot of music stored in my "My Music" folder, which are both located on the C drive- so right now I only have 300-odd MB worth of hard drive space left. I store videos and things on the D drive, but it still has around 20GB free space.
If the "My Music" folder was stored on the D drive, it would free up heaps of space where I need it for my work. Is there any way of changing the location of the My Music folder?
The best thing to do is to right-click on the My Documents icon on the desktop and look for where it specifies the location. Make a new folder on the other drive and then specify that new location in the My Documents properties. That way, all the contents will be moved to the new location, but Windows will still recognize the new My Documents folder as the official, system one and Media Player will still be able to find all the music and videos.
But Windows doesn't let me look at the properties for the My Documents folder.
I know that it is currently located in "C:\Documents and Settings\psengu07", but how do I specify a new location?
Do you have a My Documents icon on the desktop? If not, right-click the Desktop, Properties, Desktop< Customize button and check the box to show the icon on the desktop. Then when you right-click it, you should see either a "Move" button, or a changeable box with the path to the folder (depending on service pack level).
That's very strange. I never saw that before. Are there any other problems with your machine, or is this just some fluke? Does right-click work OK for all your other folders and files?
Try installing TweakUI for XP. In the options, you'll see a place to relocate system folders. Create a new folder on your other partition and then use the TweakUI program to specify that new location. The only reason that this method is preferable to just copying it over is that the folder is a system folder and many apps look for the My Documents folder for storage and so on. If you go the copy route, all those pointers will still be looking for the old folder, while moving this way changes its location in the registry so it is THE official My Documents folder.
PS. I just checked and TweakUI does not have My Documents as an option, though it does have My Music, etc. if you want to use it to move those folders.
You might try just going to My Computer, Properties and toggling the icon on the desktop off and then on, applying each change, to see if it fixes the Properties problem.
I think you've probably got some system problems if you can't view the properties of the My Documents folder. Have you scanned for viruses and malware? Do you have any other problems with the system?
Definitely back up your data before making any system changes.
I think you've probably got some system problems if you can't view the properties of the My Documents folder. Have you scanned for viruses and malware? Do you have any other problems with the system?
Definitely back up your data before making any system changes.
That's what I thought. Unless some registry cleaner removed the PropertySheetHandler specifically from the My Documents NameSpace, there has to something afoot here.
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