Moving user folders (e.g., My Pictures) to another drive - strange folder behavior

[luger]

After a fresh install of Win7, I'm moving some of the boot_drive\users\myName folders off the boot drive and onto a data drive.

To get to the user folder/'pointers', I click Start, then my username at the top of the right column. Then I select on a folder/pointer, e.g., My Pictures, access Properties tab and change location, e.g., data_drive\Pictures.

When Windows makes the move, it renames the destination folder from 'Pictures' to 'My Pictures'. And in the explorer view of the user folder/'pointers', it creates a folder 'Pictures', so this list of user folder/'pointers' now contains 'My Pictures' and 'Pictures'. Is that expected behavior?

If I wanted to undo the move and get the data back to the boot drive and under it's original folder/'pointer', how would I do so?

[Edit: OK, seems like I can undo it. At first, clicking on Restore Default in the Location tab was yielding "Folder Redirection Failed: Access is Denied", but after restarting, Restore Default works.]


Interestingly, the list of folders is different between boot_drive\users\myName and the folder view I get when clicking Start, and then my name. After making the aforementioned move, the latter folder shows both 'My Pictures' and 'Pictures', while the former folder only shows 'Pictures'. Is this because the former folder is showing pointers, while the latter is showing libraries?

 

[Berryracer]

I always move them from the source which is the root of C:\Users

I right click on each folder, then select location, then move it to the destination I want.

All I do with the libraries options in the start menu is to remove the public folder link for each item

 

[denis280]

create another folder on the storage drive.then right click on your folder on the left pane.and include a folder like (Eicture)

 

[luger]

I always move them from the source which is the root of C:\Users

I right click on each folder, then select location, then move it to the destination I want.

All I do with the libraries options in the start menu is to remove the public folder link for each item

I see . . . So when I click start, the username at the top of the right-hand column is bringing me to a list of libraries. That list is identical to boot_drive\users\myName initially after a fresh install, but once I started moving what I guess were library locations to the data drive, I started getting duplicates (e.g., My Pictures and Pictures) in the libraries list.

 

[luger]

create another folder on the storage drive.then right click on your folder on the left pane.and include a folder like (Eicture)

I don't follow this.

 

[luger]

I always move them from the source which is the root of C:\Users

I right click on each folder, then select location, then move it to the destination I want.

OK, so trying it this way, I go to boot_drive\users\myName, select My Documents and change location to data_drive\My Documents.

Before moving, My Documents contains 2535 files, and this is what data_drive\My Documents shows, so that's fine.

But now there is a new folder in boot_drive\users\myName\ called 'Documents' (the original 'My Documents' folder is no longer listed in boot_drive\users\myName. This new boot_drive\users\myName\Documents folder contains 655 files.

WTF?

 

[Berryracer]

Bro, it's simple....

forget the start menu!

no....

create a new folder in d:

let's name it Luger

in Luger, create a few folders like, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos

now, go to c:\users\XXX (where XXX is your computer username)

right click on documents, then go to the location tab, then move it to D:\Luger\Documents and hit apply, then ok

do this for each folder

then, in the start menu, right click on each item, example: Documents, then remove the link to the Public Documents folder, then do it for the rest of the items

PS: on Windows 8.1, after having have moved the documents this way, the names are still Documents not MY DOCUMENTS

 

[luger]

Bro, it's simple....

forget the start menu!

no....

create a new folder in d:

let's name it Luger

in Luger, create a few folders like, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos

now, go to c:\users\XXX (where XXX is your computer username)

right click on documents, then go to the location tab, then move it to D:\Luger\Documents and hit apply, then ok

That's exactly what I did (no start menu involved):

OK, so trying it this way, I go to boot_drive\users\myName, select My Documents and change location to data_drive\My Documents.

Before moving, My Documents contains 2535 files, and this is what data_drive\My Documents shows, so that's fine.

But now there is a new folder in boot_drive\users\myName\ called 'Documents' (the original 'My Documents' folder is no longer listed in boot_drive\users\myName. This new boot_drive\users\myName\Documents folder contains 655 files.

WTF?

I also moved boot_drive\users\myName\Downloads this way, and that moved fine. There is no longer a Downloads folder in boot_drive\users\myName\.