How do I make the system put Documents, Videos, Music, Downloads,etc to an internal SATA drive

I have a C drive on SSD, and have a SATA internal drive (F) that I want to use to send Music, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, for storage, automatically. Currently they go to:

"C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents"

I have no interest in using OneDrive, and frankly thought I had deleted it. Its like a bad penny, it keeps coming back.

I want to change to: F:\Documents and the same for all of the other.

Any help would be appreciated.

TRS

P.S. I have no idea why the user name on the C drive is "there" instead of my name. "There" is the first 5 letters of my email address.

Right click on each folder Properties>>>Location>>>Move and point to your SSD.

badrobot said:

Right click on each folder Properties>>>Location>>>Move and point to your SSD.

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They are already in the SSD, I want to move them to the SATA. What do you mean point to the SSD?

badrobot said:

Right click on each folder Properties>>>Location>>>Move and point to your SSD.

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Also, when I right click on the folder, then properties, there is no option to "move"a

therealsimpsons said:

Also, when I right click on the folder, then properties, there is no option to "move"a

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Did you click on the location tab?

Settings > System > Storage > Advanced > Where new content is saved.

therealsimpsons said:

P.S. I have no idea why the user name on the C drive is "there" instead of my name. "There" is the first 5 letters of my email address.

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This is because your using a microsoft account, which is how onedrive activated. Once you uninstalled onedrive, you have to manually move your files back to the users profile folder with your name and the reguler documents folder instead of the onedrive > documents folder.

If you already uninstalled it and moved your files to where they should be, you can delete the onedrive folder.

therealsimpsons said:

I have a C drive on SSD, and have a SATA internal drive (F) that I want to use to send Music, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, for storage, automatically. Currently they go to:

"C:\Users\there\OneDrive\Documents"

I have no interest in using OneDrive, and frankly thought I had deleted it. Its like a bad penny, it keeps coming back.

I want to change to: F:\Documents and the same for all of the other.

Any help would be appreciated.

TRS

P.S. I have no idea why the user name on the C drive is "there" instead of my name. "There" is the first 5 letters of my email address.

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My secondary drive (Data [D]) is an HDD, so the path I use is as follows:

This PC\Data (D)\ Now, as long as I follow that path, Anything I save will go on my data drive.

So now I open Data (D) and create new folders for the files I want to keep on my data drive, such as "Documents", "Downloads", etc. Say I have pictures, business documents, funny things I've picked up, and I want them all under documents. I then open my documents folder and create subfolders in there. I think you should have the Gist of what I'm talking about now.

Hope this helps

You CAN NOT Just arbitrarily uninstall Onedrive. There is a proper sequence of events. I suggest you create an system image before proceeding.

1. You must first turn off folder syncing to onedrive

2. Then MANUALLY MOVE the files to another location. Create the following folder on you other drive; Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos.
Then use these tutorials to get your files into those folders.

• Move or Restore Default Location of Desktop Folder in Windows 11
• Move or Restore Default Location of Documents Folder in Windows 11 Tutorial
• Move or Restore Default Location of Pictures Folder in Windows 11
• Move or Restore Default Location of Videos Folder in Windows 11

3. Then unlink account and PC from Onedrive

Once you do this the files you have in onedrive will remain there until you login to Onedrive on the Web and delete them.
Microsoft OneDrive

4. You can then completely uninstall onedrive if you wish.

5. That deals with the folders on onedrive. If you want any of your other personal folders moved to the new drive, create a folder on the new drive and use the same procedure (as in step 2) to move any other folder to that drive (such as downloads). Move or Restore Default Location of Downloads Folder in Windows 11

Wynona said:

My secondary drive (Data [D]) is an HDD, so the path I use is as follows:

This PC\Data (D)\ Now, as long as I follow that path, Anything I save will go on my data drive.

So now I open Data (D) and create new folders for the files I want to keep on my data drive, such as "Documents", "Downloads", etc. Say I have pictures, business documents, funny things I've picked up, and I want them all under documents. I then open my documents folder and create subfolders in there. I think you should have the Gist of what I'm talking about now.

Hope this helps

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I do the same thing!