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How do I relocate my user home directory to another partition?

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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
partition for my user files.

I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
properties tab.

I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.

Is it possible to relocate "user"?



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Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
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Trev

Flightless Bird
"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
news:hpdp6q$nvo$1@panix5.panix.com...
>
> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
> partition for my user files.
>
> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
> properties tab.
>
> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.
>
> Is it possible to relocate "user"?
>
>
>
> --
> Al Dykes
> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is
> advertising.
> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>


The users Folders are Non excitant There just virtual links
 
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Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
> partition for my user files.
>
> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
> properties tab.
>
> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.
>
> Is it possible to relocate "user"?


I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
In article <dqw6ywr25piz.hjf9yaf6papf$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Gene E. Bloch <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
>On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:
>
>> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
>> partition for my user files.
>>
>> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
>> properties tab.
>>
>> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
>> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.
>>
>> Is it possible to relocate "user"?

>
>I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
>That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".




I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been
clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a
folder called C:/users\user shown by properties in control panel. I
don't know offhand if it's a link or not.

I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.

I can understand that relocating "C;\users" would break things.




--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
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Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On 5 Apr 2010 22:34:26 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

> In article <dqw6ywr25piz.hjf9yaf6papf$.dlg@40tude.net>,
> Gene E. Bloch <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
>>On 5 Apr 2010 18:45:46 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:
>>
>>> I'm new to W/7 and am setting up my first machine witha large D
>>> partition for my user files.
>>>
>>> I see instructions for relocate "My Documents" to D: via the
>>> properties tab.
>>>
>>> I see that there is an entry in the start menu for my user ID ("user")
>>> but I don't see the same way to relocate this folder.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to relocate "user"?

>>
>>I don't know if it is possible, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
>>That folder is pretty central to the way Windows "thinks".

>
>
>
> I could have used an ID other than "user" and things would have been
> clearer. My user id on this machine is *user* which means there is a
> folder called C:/users\user shown by properties in control panel. I
> don't know offhand if it's a link or not.
>
> I'd like to relocate "user" to another partition.
>
> I can understand that relocating "C;\users" would break things.


I stand by what I said. Your user directory is under C:/users...

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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