Not saving to HD

pbartlett

the desktop is usually on the c drive. You can create a shirtcut on the desktop to a location on the d drive though.

Neil_Jones

You can "move" the Desktop location, but I would personally get into the habit of not dumping things on the desktop in the first place - dump them in a folder on your D Drive instead.

Laz123

GT60 said:

@[Deleted User]

Thank you so much for that.

My music and documents are now in their own folders in D drive and deleted the files in the music and doc's.folders on the C drive.

The best bit the music still plays after doing the include in the Library bit. 

I am still trying to get my head round what @Neil_Jones says but will have another play tomorrow.

Thanks everyone you are all stars.

I though the C drive was solely for the OS and nothing else how wrong can i be?

Just a thought how do I stop software and updates for the printer and other devices saving to the SSD or don't I have a choice with that one as the SSD will soon fill up won't it?

You could have saved having to delete the files on 'c' if you had simply cut and pasted by selecting the folder and holding down ctrl and 'x' then selected the folder to transfer to and held down ctrl 'v'.

GT60

pbartlett said:

the desktop is usually on the c drive. You can create a shirtcut on the desktop to a location on the d drive though.

Neil_Jones said:

You can "move" the Desktop location, but I would personally get into the habit of not dumping things on the desktop in the first place - dump them in a folder on your D Drive instead.

Thanks for your replies.
@pbartlett how do I do a shortcut on the desktop to the Drive location?
@Neil_Jones how do u move the Desktop location?
I thought I had done this by creating a folder in the  D drive library.
Please can I have step by step instructions?
Thanks 

Neil_Jones

C:\Users\<username> -> right-click Desktop -> Location Tab -> Move.

getmore4less

I have my PC set up that in day to day only the SSD is in use,  my HDD only spins up when needed.
To keep an eye on things I use a file system visual tool, there are a few around 

not done one for a while, looking today
I use  wiztree  to find the space hogs and move/delete them if not needed
~250GB SSD   
~75GB in use  so not a problem yet
windows, 31GB,
users 22GB,
page/hiber 12GB 

there are 4 large downloads(total 10GB) in users
2 are the same must have downloaded twice 3mins apart.
1 is a mint ISO that can move to the iso archive on D
will sort doing the next tidy up of both drives

OnlyTheBestWillDo

GT60 said:

I have now done what @pbartlett has said.
But I wanted the desktop folders and files to go on D drive so every time I moved it all to a new folder in the D drive library and deleted of C drive the desktop items disappeared.
Then i came across this about desktop items.
I guess it's no more saving stuff on the desktop or does it?
Thanks again.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/changing-what-drive-the-desktop-is-stored-in/30e073d2-f953-482b-8a5f-8fa6cab58909

There aren't any folders on the Desktop by default; so why are you choosing to save and keep them there? It's usually just a temporary solution. Just move them to the appropriate folder on the HDD and then save any new files to the appropriate folder on the HDD. No need to keep hundreds of GBs in folders on the Desktop. Get organised.
Just copy and paste the folders and files from the Desktop itself and leave the Desktop at it's normal default. Don't try to move the whole Desktop. No need for that at all.

Username03725

It's quite easy to change the default location of the Music, Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders in Windows - r-click on each in Windows Explorer and open Properties then under the Location tab set the location to where you want them to be be. I've done this on my last few PCs to put them on the 2nd HDD (D: in my case). 

These folders are nothing special other than Windows encourages you to use them as default locations for their specific content. Changing the default means that they continue to work in exactly the same way but are physically in a different location.

Edit: I just clicked through to that link, and don't recognise the warnings it gives. As above, my Desktop is on my D drive and it's been entirely transparent where it physically is. Try it and see.

pbartlett

To put a shortcut for a d-drive folder on your desktop

1. open This PC and then . You will see a list of folder icons.
2. rt-click and hold down on the required folder icon, drag it to the desktop. Drom the pop-up menu that appears choose 'create shortcut'