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I'm in the same boat that it appears a lot of users are in. Precious little SSD space and an set of AppData folders in my profile that are constantly expanding in size. I would like to move this stuff off to a much larger non-SSD drive (E:).
I followed this piece of advice to move that bloat and, at first, it seemed to work. I was able to go to the properties of these three folders in AppData:
- Local
- LocalLow
- Roaming
And each had a Location tab in properties, giving the option to relocate these folders. The relocate process appeared to work fine for LocalLow and Roaming, but the process sputtered and fizzled on Local with these files (they couldn't be moved because they were in use):
- UsrClass.dat
- UsrClass.dat.log1
- UsrClass.dat.log2
Now, even though it appeared that the relocate process for LocalLow and Roaming worked, it actually didn't: when I navigate into those folders from my profile on my desktop, these folders are all still pointing to their original locations. All of these folders point to C:\Users[MyAccount]\AppData... instead of E:\Users... like I had wanted.
As well, the Location tab is now gone from the property dialog. I'm not crazy; I know it was there before.
So, two questions:
- Why is the Location tab now missing from these folders' property pages?
- Is there actually any way to relocate these files?
Chris Simmons
Posted 2013-11-02T06:07:19.187
Reputation: 247
1Open the registry (regedit.exe) and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, review the values under the keys 'Shell Folders' and 'User Shell Folders'. Do they show what you expect? – Peter Hahndorf – 2013-11-02T18:56:08.597
@peter-hahndorf, good tip. I see these values correctly as "E:" instead of "C:" paths. – Chris Simmons – 2013-11-04T05:45:27.990