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| File Management |
There are a number of things you may want
to do to make it easier to manage your files
effectively. As a minimum you'll want a central
place for most of your documents. You may
want to "partition" your hard drive
so that backups will be efficient. Look over
"Organizing Files" and "Backup" to get an idea of what you want to
do. Then come back to these sketches
of how
to do it.
Sections:
- Moving the "My Documents" folder -- just
below.
- Using "My Documents" -- located here
- The sections below are not written yet.
- Partitioning your hard drive.
- Moving "Temporary Internet Files"
- Moving your Email files [OE 5.x]
- Moving the "Swap File" -- WIN386.SWP
- File Management Resources
Moving "My Documents"
You can easily move the location of "My Documents".
Actually, My Documents is just
a "virtual"
folder. The real location is
usually C:\My
Documents\. If you "move"
it to,
say, E:\Documents\, Windows just
puts a shortcut
in C:\My Documents\ that points
to E:\Documents\.
When you click "My Documents",
you now end up in the new location.
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Before you move the location of My Documents,
you'll need to create the new location (folder)
-- E:\Documents in this case -- using Windows
Explorer.
Then, to move "My Documents": Open
Windows Explorer > right-click "My
Documents" > click "Properties"
> click "Browse" under "Target
folder location" > select the location
you want > click OK > click Ok again.
Finally, use Windows Explorer to move all
the files from C:\My Documents\ to E:\Documents. |
Resources
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