In this tutorial, David explains why and how to relocate Windows 10 personal (shell) folders such as Music, Pictures, and Documents from the default location on the system SSD (C:) to a larger secondary hard drive. He outlines the typical scenario of a small SSD for the OS and a larger HDD for media files, then demonstrates the step‑by‑step process: open the user folder, right‑click the target folder, open Properties → Location tab, click Move, navigate to the desired drive (e.g., F:), optionally recreate the same folder hierarchy, select the new folder, and apply. He notes that OneDrive may sync files during the move, which can cause a brief transition period. The video ends with a standard call‑to‑action for likes, comments, and subscriptions.
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Hello everyone, this is David, and in today's video we'll be talking about how to move the location of your personal folders in Windows 10. The personal folders, of course, refer to these folders that you see in front of you, which are in your user folder. Things like Music, Pictures, Documents, etc. Now you might ask, why would you want to move the location of these folders? Well, let's say for example your primary hard drive is a solid-state drive, and it might be smaller than another hard drive you might have in your computer. If you have a solid-state drive that's smaller, maybe to run your operating system, which is the case for me, and I know for others that want a faster system, and then you have an additional hard drive which maybe is a bit bigger, but it's not a solid-state hard drive, but that's where you store all of your media files, all of your larger files and personal documents etc. So in this example, I'm going to show you how to move the location of your music folder. Now first, just to kind of explain what's going on here, I'm going to click This PC, and you'll see these are my drives. The local C drive in my case is a solid-state drive, which is about 250 gigs, and then this is a 1 terabyte standard hard drive, which is not a solid-state drive, but this is where I want to keep all of my files pretty much, and then the local disk is for the operating system primarily. So back to my user folder, I'm gonna show you how to move the location of the music folder. All you have to do is right-click the folder that you'd like to move, and by the way, these user folders are referred to as shell folders because they have this special property to them. You just click Properties, click the Location tab, which is unique to these kinds of folders, And mine, as you can see, is already on a different drive, but yours will probably say C:/Users/your username/the name of the folder, but you can move this. So all you have to do is click Move, click This PC, find the new hard drive location that you want to use. In my case, it's called F, but for you it might be called E or some other letter drive. And then I like to mirror how it looks on my C drive. So I actually have a Users folder, just like it would be on a C drive, followed by my user folder. And then I've created a Music folder here, and I just click Select Folder, and here we have a new location for the music. After you click Apply, there will be a little bit of a transition if there's anything on OneDrive that it will be moving to your other hard drive, but that shouldn't hopefully take too long. And And then once you're done, if you open this folder, you're actually going to a different location on a different hard drive. But it's still in your user folder, so it's very convenient to access. I hope you found this video helpful, and as always, if you enjoyed this video, please leave a like and a comment, and consider subscribing. Thank you very much, and I'll see you next time.
