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The default for Desktop, Downloads, etc storage on another drive
How to move already existing Desktop, Downloads, etc to another drive
We all know that the default storage drive for downloads, desktop, etc in Windows is c:\ drive...
Most of the people use smaller SSD drives for the OS and much cheaper and larger secondary HDDs for data
If that's your case - your SSD can be pretty full pretty quickly...
There are two solutions - for two different cases!
Here we go:
CASE no. 1
You have a fresh install of for e.g. Windows 10
1. Go to "Settings", "System"
2. Click "Storage"
3. Click "Change where new content is saved"
4. Choose another, larger, drive
CASE no. 2
You've already filled your c:\ drive
Well, just move them to another, larger drive!
1. On the larger drive create a new folder, for e.g Downloads
2. Open File Explorer, righ-click "Downloads"
3. Go to "Properties" - "Location" and click "Move"
4. Choose the destination folder you've created, click "Yes" and wait.
5. You can do this for "Desktop", "Document", "Pictures", etc.. Just note that you can do this only one at a time!
6. Of course you can revert the changes by clicking on "Restore defaults" - just left of the "Move" button
How to move already existing Desktop, Downloads, etc to another drive
We all know that the default storage drive for downloads, desktop, etc in Windows is c:\ drive...
Most of the people use smaller SSD drives for the OS and much cheaper and larger secondary HDDs for data
If that's your case - your SSD can be pretty full pretty quickly...
There are two solutions - for two different cases!
Here we go:
CASE no. 1
You have a fresh install of for e.g. Windows 10
1. Go to "Settings", "System"
2. Click "Storage"
3. Click "Change where new content is saved"
4. Choose another, larger, drive
CASE no. 2
You've already filled your c:\ drive
Well, just move them to another, larger drive!
1. On the larger drive create a new folder, for e.g Downloads
2. Open File Explorer, righ-click "Downloads"
3. Go to "Properties" - "Location" and click "Move"
4. Choose the destination folder you've created, click "Yes" and wait.
5. You can do this for "Desktop", "Document", "Pictures", etc.. Just note that you can do this only one at a time!
6. Of course you can revert the changes by clicking on "Restore defaults" - just left of the "Move" button