Check the both folders and delete the duplicates. Make sure the location is set correctly on the Location tab.
After moving several folders on the C drive to the D drive, they still show up in the C drive.
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I have a new Windows 11 laptop. I recently moved a lot of my folders under users from the C drive to the D drive. However, to get to any of them, I have to go to New Volume D on the left-hand pane of Windows Explorer. I want to click on the Documents icon to take me to my documents library on the D drive or click on the Pictures icon to take me to my pictures on the D drive. Currently, when I do this, for example, if I click on the Documents icon, it takes me to my documents library, but these are still on my C drive.What do I need to do to click on the documents icon on the left-hand side of Windows Explorer, and it takes me to my documents on the D drive? I did this once before on my previous laptop, but I cannot remember how I did it. Thanks.HB
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Rodrigo Queiroz 77,750 Reputation points Independent Advisor2024-04-04T19:20:11+00:00 Hi,
I'm Rodrigo and I'll help you.
Right-click Documents in the navigation pane (left) > Properties > Location tab > Move... > Select the Documents folder on the D: drive
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Anonymous
2024-04-05T16:18:05+00:00 After further investigation, only the Documents icon in the left-hand pane of Windows Explorer is showing on the C Drive. Let me explain:
I right-clicked the icons in the left-hand pane of Windows Explorer for the items shown below. Under their properties, they all appear to be on the D Drive. So, I now know they are fine.
Desktop
Downloads
Favourites
Music
OneDrive
Pictures
VideosHowever, when I right-click the Documents icon in the left-hand pane of Windows Explorer, its properties show it to be on the C Drive.
I can get to my documents on the D Drive by going a different route, that being ‘New Volume D,’ but not directly through the main Documents icon. Strange.
The main idea of moving all these folders in the first place was to save space on my C Drive. That is a smaller SSD than the SSD on my D Drive. I don’t really want the Documents library on my C Drive as a backup because I have all of them backed up on an external hard drive, anyway.
The only other things I am putting on the D Drive from the C Drive are my Outlook .pst files, again, to save space.
Now that you know this, and it is only the Documents icon that is still on the C Drive, I assume I will carry out Rodrigo’s instructions. However, as explained, I have all my documents on the D Drive and the C Drive. I’m assuming that if I try to change the location of the document’s icon from its present C Drive to the D Drive, it will tell me that the documents already exist.
So, how would I approach this so that when I right-click on the Documents icon, it is on the D Drive instead of the C Drive? Thanks.
HB
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Anonymous
2024-04-05T13:20:04+00:00 You don't say which 'several folders' you're moving from C to D, but if one of them is your Documents folder, I'll guess that the other folders are Desktop, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos, all of which can be moved (and should be moved, in my view) from C to D.
When you change the default location for these folders to D, you'll still see them in C. That's done to accommodate older applications that might be hard-coded to look for your personal folders in C. A secondary reason is that if anything not good ever happens to your D drive, you still have access to those folders in C.
Not to worry. If you correctly moved the default location of your personal folders to D, that is now their new default location.
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Anonymous
2024-04-05T10:47:46+00:00 Hi Rodrigo, thanks for coming back to me.
Using your method, when trying to move all my folders from the C drive to the D drive, it seems I have duplicates on the C drive. In other words, I still have my documents on drive C as well as drive D. What should I do in this instance? Should I delete all the duplicate folders on drive C first?
HB