I have a roughly 100gb SSD as my C: drive and I'm running out of space on it. I've deleted everything I can from it but I'm still running out. I read online that you can use symbolic links to save space, but I was a bit confused. I'm trying to use a symbolic link on my appdata folder since it's taking up 13 gigs of space. Would I copy the folder and paste it into my D: drive, delete the contents of the folder on the C: drive, then make a symbolic link pointing to the folder on the D: folder? Also, when trying to paste the appdata folder into my D: drive, it tells me some items can't be moved because it does not have permission or that they are in use.
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You can MOVE the Location of the User files. On your D: drive create a Folder called User or whatever. Inside this folder create each individual User Files (ie) Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music etc. Then back in C:\Users\UserName folder, change the location of each folder Here are instructions for the Documents folder Move Location of Documents Folder in Windows 10 Do this to all of your User Files, except AppData as this needs to be on the same drive as Windows.
You also can just get a bigger drive and clone your existing drive to it.
You also can just get a bigger drive and clone your existing drive to it.
Microsoft suggest not to do this because it will possibly stop you from upgrading to a newer version of Windows.
You can open the %appdata% folder and right click the the Roaming folder and choose Properties/Location and Move that folder to a the D: Drive Moving AppData under Windows 10 - possible? - Windows 10 Help Forums
I haven't tried it but if you really want to try and move it using Symbolic Links here you go Create Soft and Hard Symbolic Links in Windows
It should go without saying that you should backup first before doing any surgery.
You can open the %appdata% folder and right click the the Roaming folder and choose Properties/Location and Move that folder to a the D: Drive Moving AppData under Windows 10 - possible? - Windows 10 Help Forums
I haven't tried it but if you really want to try and move it using Symbolic Links here you go Create Soft and Hard Symbolic Links in Windows
It should go without saying that you should backup first before doing any surgery.
I personally think this level of tinkering with the Windows files is somewhat foolhardy. I'd seriously consider a larger drive, the prices are very reasonable.
For example:
Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT1000BX500SSD1 - $64.99 (including shipping)
Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT1000BX500SSD1 - $64.99 (including shipping)
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