The relatively small C: drive on my desktop is full so I’m looking free up space. I’ve already started moving my Documents folder to a larger drive.
I’ve looked on Google so now I’m asking Dopers: is there a way tell Win 10 to move the main Users folder rather than just the subfolders? I’m guessing not.
Not a standard, safe method. In this it’s unlike Unix derivatives, where the standard user home directory can be its own drive mounted at the /home directory and work transparently in almost every implementation.
Frankly, every approach I’ve ever seen for doing this in Windows has been characterized as a potentially unreliable hack which will make support impossible.
Hm. Changing the properties of the Documents folder made duplicates of the subfolders on J: but the originals are still on C:. Moving manually to ensure everything makes it over and removed from C:.
I also moved my Steam software off C: so at least now it isn’t completely full…
Be careful. Some of the folders on c: typically are virtual folders or linked folders. (Many folders are virtual folders and could be anywhere, but only a few virtual folders appear to be on c: )
S’all good. I’m only moving subfolders in Documents to the new Documents location, which I had expected Windows to do on its own rather than just copy everything.
Evidently most of my Documents folder is occupied by stuff related to Electronic Arts games.
Anyway, I ended up manually moving one subfolder at a time because moving them all at once caused File Explorer to hang. Now there’s nearly 300 gigs of free space.
Do you also have something like WinDirStat? It allows you to visualize what’s taking up space. If you have a Hibernation or Page file you can move those to the other drive. Google how.
CCleaner has in the past been kind of sketchy/adware, I looked up 2021 version and the consensus seems to be “it might or might not be bad, but there’s safer alternatives”
Glad you found the problem but I’d like to second the recommendation for WinDirStat. It’s a very entertaining program and every time I run it I find multiple large files that I don’t need. Often gigabytes worth.