How do I redirect My Pictures, My Music etc....XP?

[luca brazzi]

Following on from getting a new disk just for backups, I'm having a sort out and moving my stuff onto a different disk to the C: drive.

I still want to be able to open My Documents, then my Pictures, but have the pictures stored on a separate disk, using the My Pictures as an alias so to speak.

Any thoughts?

LB

[GregE240]

Right click "My Documents" on your desktop, click Properties.

Select "Move".

I'll leave you to do the rest.

Greg

[slinky]

You need to edit the registry..

Have a look at...

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders

You'll see that My Pictures is set to %USERPROFILE%My DocumentsMy Pictures

Change that value to the new location and it should do the job...

All the normal precautions, backup registry etc just in case all hell breaks loose!

Have a look here for the details

hth

slinky

[chrisjl]

Greg's options much less frightening, and offers you a "would you like to move all the stuff?" prompt.

[slinky]

but, as far as I understand it, LB already has already moved his images..

Whilst it appears scary, it's exceedingly easy to manage the registry if care is taken, making sure you only change the entry you intend to change...

Obviously, I am not taking anything away from Greg's suggestion, as, if the files are still in place, that is most probably easier...

slinky

[luca brazzi]

Having just read that link, and as I've moved (well still moving 70Gb) I saw that I can use TweakUI XP to point My Pics at a different folder. So I'm gonna try this.

Thanks Peeps.
LB
(seriously needs to delete some "stuff")

[docevi1]

I was just about to say find TweakUI from www.microsoft.com as that will do it for you

[.Mark]

docevi1 said:

I was just about to say find TweakUI from www.microsoft.com as that will do it for you

Got some good stuff on there. Some good toys to play with

[docevi1]

if you can find them

Sometimes www.google.com is the best to use, search with "site:www.microsoft.com x y z" where x y & z are the parameters you want to search within the ms site Very handy

[GregE240]

luca brazzi said:

Having just read that link, and as I've moved (well still moving 70Gb) I saw that I can use TweakUI XP to point My Pics at a different folder. So I'm gonna try this. Thanks Peeps. LB (seriously needs to delete some "stuff")

TweakUI is just a posh way of doing what Slinky posted (oh, and pretty failsafe too!)

[FunkyNige]

docevi1 said:

if you can find them

I assume you're talking about the XP Powertoys

[ErnestM]

Another option:

While your new disk is still new/unformated...

1. Create a folder under my pictures called "Old Pictures" or some such.

2. Keep that folder empty.

3. When you create your partition on the new drive, mount it to that empty folder.

That way you can navigate through "My Pictures" and get all of the benefits of the new/spare drive without having all of the extra drive letters under "My Computer"


ErnestM