Re: Moving all user files to separate partition under windows

Honestly since the advent of NTFS symbolic links, I mostly use those to
rearchitect my drives, files and folders the way I want them, instead of
digging around in the registry or plodding through obscure UIs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

MkLink /J is your friend.

Just take care to preserve the ACLs on the new folder structure...  esp take
note of the Mandatory Label (integrity level) entries for folders such as
"Favorites" and "AppData\LocalLow" that IE must be able to write to, when
running in "Protected Mode" (LoRIE).

>icacls Favorites
Favorites REDMOND\shawnvn:(OI)(CI)(F)
          BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F)
          BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
          NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F)
          NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
          BUILTIN\Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(RX)
          NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(M)
          NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)
          Mandatory Label\Low Mandatory Level:(OI)(CI)(NW)

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Mark Levison <mark-r0EpITdELjZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> So far so good I've got win7 installed on a new laptop hard drive. Great.
> Next step was to give my documents on a seperate partition and here I'm
> having some trouble.
>
> I've searched around for instructions on doing this and found Ed Bott's:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=215 - compared to many others. But unlike
> his instructions the only option I get when right click is to copy and not
> move. So I've got the data for my new account moved over but not the "mark"
> folder.
>
> Is there some clever trick I missed? I see instructions like these:
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=731030 and
> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1409/move-your-documents-and-settings-username-profile-off-of-the-c-drive/ but
> these were both written for Windows XP.
>
> Is there a better way do I just have to get down and dirty with regedit?
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
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