Moving your “My Mucic” and “My Pictures” locations in Vista
Moving form XP to Vista changes some day to day tasks along with structure of data beneath the GUI.
So what happens if you have thousands of music files that you would like referenced from you’re “My Music” and your partition for you OS is not that large? Say
you just went on a vacation and returned with thousands of new images that you would like to have on an external drive not to fill up your laptop with all of the
photos .. what do you do?
Here’s how to relocate any of the folders in your profile….
1) Navigate to the drive that you would like to use for the new location and create the directory structure. I:\Music or I:\Pictures
2) Click on Start and click the bodl user name at the top right in the Start menu. This will open your profile editor.
3) Right click the icon for the property that you would like to edit. Documents, My Music and so on … Choose properties.
4) On the location tab click on the button Move (middle button)
5) You can then select the location that you have previously created.
6) Click select folder and return to the location tab – click OK and you will be presented with a conformation if you really want to do this … select yes.
7) Your done!
That’s it – all you have to do to move your locations of My Music and other folders. This is a great way to map large amounts of data from other locations and
drives to your my Docs folder for backup and/or just piece of mind.