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Post by bigbarney on Feb 9, 2022 14:39:40 GMT -5
On my desktop (see my signature for details), the SSD has only 10GGB left of 118GB.
I would like to transfer a lot of the files on the SSD to the HD leaving only the bare minimum.
I am struggling to identify which files/folders I can move without causing a disaster.
Any pointers?
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 9, 2022 14:53:19 GMT -5
It would help if we knew what the files are that are saved there.
While it is an old one this thread on the Windows 10 Help forum might help you.
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 9, 2022 18:47:49 GMT -5
It would help if we knew what the files are that are saved there.
While it is an old one this thread on the Windows 10 Help forum might help you.
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 9, 2022 19:46:37 GMT -5
I honestly can't say Barney. Bud would be better with this I imagine. Did you read the info on the link I gave you?
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Post by budgall on Feb 9, 2022 22:49:17 GMT -5
Without details its hard to advise what to move. Files in the downloads, document, pictures and video folders can be moved without problems. Running disk cleanup should also cleanup some space.
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 12, 2022 9:07:42 GMT -5
After a bit of investigation, I discovered that my ISP, British Telecom (BT) Cloud service has been backing up loads of files on my 'C' drive. I don't use their Cloud service, so the files were just sitting there. I deleted them and regained almost 12GB!!!
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 12, 2022 9:16:09 GMT -5
Good Investigating!
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 12, 2022 9:38:43 GMT -5
I've also found that under 'C' , 'Users' , 'blang' which is me, there are 30GB of files stored there. Can I move them to my 'D' drive? Attachments:
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 12, 2022 9:46:14 GMT -5
Again Barney, we don't know exactly what is inside that folder so we cannot say, did you personally create this folder? They were just created this week so what are they? You have another file folder there that is 15 months old appearing to be backup files is there a reason those are needed?
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 12, 2022 10:01:19 GMT -5
Again Barney, we don't know exactly what is inside that folder so we cannot say, did you personally create this folder? They were just created this week so what are they? You have another file folder there that is 15 months old appearing to be backup files is there a reason those are needed? I did not create the folder 'blang' Today's date being there is I assume because I accessed the folder to check what it contains?
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Post by Phil on Feb 12, 2022 10:47:42 GMT -5
I would surmise that your "blang" folder is automatically created by windows as your user folder. I have a similar one, but it has only 6GB used and that includes desktop and documents. More than likely your 30GB in that folder could be pared down by selectively and carefully transferring files to your D Drive. Look at the properties of the files and folders in blang to determine which are the ones using large amounts of space. Rather than moving entire folders I would suggest that you move files into newly named folders on D. For example the download folder shows as empty because I have transferred all of the files that were there to D in a folder I named as My Downloads. A few large files that were formerly located in C/Desktop are now located in D/Desktop which also, by the way, contains backup of ALL of C/Desktop.
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 12, 2022 10:49:28 GMT -5
Again Barney, we don't know exactly what is inside that folder so we cannot say, did you personally create this folder? They were just created this week so what are they? You have another file folder there that is 15 months old appearing to be backup files is there a reason those are needed? I did not create the folder 'blang' Today's date being there is I assume because I accessed the folder to check what it contains?
I see you added a second attachment after I made my earlier post asking you what was in the file. You should have made a new post to answer the question not added it to the original. |
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 12, 2022 12:30:23 GMT -5
I used the 'Move' function under 'Location' in C drive Properties to move a lot of files to my 'D' drive. Using this feature means that the new locations are automatically updated. I now have over 50GB space on 'C' drive.
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Post by MrBill on Feb 12, 2022 19:49:56 GMT -5
Just me, but I don't like to "MOVE" anything. A hickup and you probably lost some or all of what you are moving. I do "Copy and Paste" then when I am sure things are OK, I delete the old stuff from where I copied it from.
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 13, 2022 9:09:43 GMT -5
Just me, but I don't like to "MOVE" anything. A hickup and you probably lost some or all of what you are moving. I do "Copy and Paste" then when I am sure things are OK, I delete the old stuff from where I copied it from. Copy and Paste does not allow the links to your folders to be transferred. Using the 'Move' command means all my files and folders are still accessible by clicking on desktop shortcuts etc.
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 13, 2022 9:26:50 GMT -5
Just me, but I don't like to "MOVE" anything. A hickup and you probably lost some or all of what you are moving. I do "Copy and Paste" then when I am sure things are OK, I delete the old stuff from where I copied it from. Copy and Paste does not allow the links to your folders to be transferred. Using the 'Move' command means all my files and folders are still accessible by clicking on desktop shortcuts etc.
Plus, copy/paste can be only used on personal files like videos, photos, and music and a few apps. If you transfer other apps, some boot files might be missing and the apps won’t run normally. |
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