How do you MOVE Documents from C: Drive to D: Drive?

Hi Terry

I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

Open Windows File Explorer

In the right hand pane, right click your Documents folder and choose Properties

Select the Location tab

In the Location box, type D:\Documents then click Apply and OK

When that move completes, do the same for Pictures, Videos and Music

Each time, you must provide a new folder location, for example, Pictures will go to D:\Pictures

If the above does not work for you, please provide a screenshot of any error you encounter . . .

I just moved my entire Pictures folder from SSD C: to HDD D: by opening the pictures folder, right-clicking on an empty space, clicking Properties > Location > Target.

Then I clicked to make drive D the target location, and then moved the entire Pictures folder over from C to D.

I'd expected problems, but it was that simple. I checked and the expected space has been freed on C and my pics are on D. Hope this might work for someone else.

Ditto regardless of what I tried to change. I didn't want to use OneDrive anyway when I'm trying to transfer from an old system so I removed it completely, and it's still giving me the same message about the folder being C:\Users\OneDrive\Documents and get the error "Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected. Access is denied.". The whole idea of having a dual drive is so you can keep the less used or larger data files on the HDD and only the important ones on the SSD. This makes it impossible to do that.

I have the same question and try to do the move - but it creates an error.

The folder can't be moved here

"Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected. Access is denied."

I dont even understand what that means - do you know what is stopping this?

I get the same error when I try to move my Pictures folder from C: to D: using Properties.

Hi Dave, 

Thank you so much for your quick reply. 

Unfortunately, I am now even more confused, as when I follow your instructions and right click Documents and select the Location tab, it shows 

"C:\Users\terry\OneDrive\Documents"

Under "This PC", if I right click Documents, I get the same result. 

Under "OS(C:)\Users\terry\Documents" it shows 0 bytes, 0 files\folders. 

Does this mean that I have no documents actually store on my C: drive?  So if my internet fails, I would not have access to my documents?

If I move "C:\Users\OneDrive\Documents" to the D drive, will this move all my files onto the D drive, and will they still sync with OneDrive? 

Thanks

Just move the OneDrive folder to the D drive.  Make sure you Unlink your account from OneDrive before you move the OneDrive folder.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-location-of-your-onedrive-folder-f386fb81-1461-40a7-be2c-712676b2c4ae

Turn on the OneDrive PC Folder backup and your backed up files will move to the OneDrive folder on Drive D.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/back-up-your-documents-pictures-and-desktop-folders-with-onedrive-d61a7930-a6fb-4b95-b28a-6552e77c3057

You may need to purchase additional OneDrive space.  See the Buy Microsoft 365 button at the top of the page.