如果您有一台旧计算机或一台将小型SSD驱动器作为主驱动器的新计算机，您可能需要定期将数据从默认的Windows用户文件夹中移出并移至第二个硬盘驱动器甚至外部驱动器以节省空间。
我所说的默认文件夹是Downloads、Documents、Videos、Music等。默认情况下，所有这些文件夹都位于与您的系统分区相同的分区上，通常是 C 。路径通常是C:\Users\username\foldername。
如果您的主分区上需要额外的空间来存放应用程序或其他东西，那么将这些默认文件夹移动到新位置并不是很困难。好的是您可以根据需要仅移动其中一个或全部。因此，如果您的视频(Videos)文件夹是唯一占用空间的大文件夹，您可以移动它并保留其他文件夹。
如果可以的话，我还建议将您的数据文件夹移动到另一个磁盘（特别是第二个硬盘驱动器，而不仅仅是同一磁盘上的不同分区），因为如果系统驱动器发生故障或Windows损坏且无法访问，它们将是安全的。
(Change User Folder Location)在Windows中(Windows)更改用户文件夹位置
对于Windows 10(Windows 10)、Windows 8、Windows 7、Windows Vista等，以下过程几乎相同。Windows的一些功能几十年来一直保持不变，用户文件夹的位置就是其中之一。
首先，打开Windows 资源管理器(Windows Explorer)并导航到包含所有系统文件夹的目录。在Windows 8和Windows 10中，您只需单击此 PC( This PC)，您就会看到所有内容。
在Windows 7中，您必须通过转到 C:\Users\username 手动导航到用户文件夹目录。默认情况下，Windows 7将在左侧窗格中显示库，这更像是包含多个文件夹内容的虚拟文件夹。您还可以更改库位置，稍后我将对此进行解释。
现在只需右键单击要移动的文件夹并选择Properties。
单击位置(Location)选项卡，然后单击移动(Move)按钮。您还应该看到相关文件夹的当前路径。
Find Target按钮除了加载文本框中列出的路径外不执行任何操作。因此，如果您要关闭文件夹属性对话框后面的Explorer窗口并单击Find Target，它只会在路径中最后一个文件夹的父文件夹中显示一个Explorer窗口（在我的情况下，是 Documents 的父文件夹） .
当您单击移动(Move)时，它将弹出一个对话框，您可以在其中选择新的目标文件夹，如上所示。选择文件夹并单击属性对话框上的确定或应用(Apply)后，它将询问您是否要移动所有文件。
始终建议您将所有文件移动到新位置。单击是时，Windows将开始将文件移动到新位置。这可能需要一些时间，具体取决于文件夹中的数据量。
就是这样！此时，该文件夹将可以通过程序正常访问，但数据将保存在新位置而不是默认位置。例如，如果您更改“下载(Downloads)”文件夹的位置，您的浏览器将自动将文件下载到该文件夹，该文件夹现在将被重定向到新位置。
我不建议将新位置更改为外部USB驱动器或网络驱动器，因为它们往往会偶尔断开连接，并开始在Windows中引发奇怪的问题。如果您的系统中有一个始终连接的附加磁盘，则最好仅执行此操作。享受！
Change the Location of User Folders in Windows
If you havе an оld cоmputer or a new computer with a small SSD drivе as your primary drive, you may need to perіоdically move data out of the default Windows user folders and onto a second hard drive or even an external drivе to save space.
The default folders I’m talking about are Downloads, Documents, Videos, Music, etc. By default, all of these folders are located on the same partition as your system partition, which is usually C. The path is normally C:\Users\username\foldername.
If you need extra space on your main partition for applications or something else, then it’s not very difficult to move those default folders to a new location. What’s nice is that you can move just one or all of them as needed. So if your Videos folder is the only large folder taking up space, you can move it and leave the other folders alone.
I also recommend moving your data folders to another disk (specifically a second hard drive, not just a different partition on the same disk) if you can as they will be safe in case the system drive fails or Windows becomes corrupt and inaccessible.
Change User Folder Location in Windows
The procedure below is pretty much the same for Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, etc, etc. There are a few features of Windows that have remained the same over decades and the location of user folders is one of them.
To get started, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the directory that has all of the system folders. In Windows 8 and Windows 10, you just click on This PC and you’ll see everything.
In Windows 7, you’ll have to manually navigate to the user folder directory by going to C:\Users\username. By default, Windows 7 will show libraries in the left-hand pane, which are more like virtual folders that contain the contents of multiple folders. You can also change the libraries locations, which I will explain below later.
Now just right-click on the folder you wish to move and choose Properties.
Click on the Location tab and click on the Move button. You should also see the current path to the folder in question.
The Find Target button doesn’t do anything other than load the path listed in the text box. So if you were to close the Explorer window behind the folder properties dialog and click on Find Target, it would just bring up an Explorer window in the parent folder of the last folder in the path (in my case, the parent folder of Documents).
When you click on Move, it will bring up a dialog where you can select the new destination folder as shown above. Once you select the folder and click OK or Apply on the properties dialog, it will ask if you want to move all the files or not.
It is always recommended that you move all the files to the new location. When you click Yes, Windows will begin moving the files to the new location. It could take some time, depending on how much data is in the folder.
That’s about it! At this point, the folder will be accessible through programs normally, but the data will be saved in the new location rather than the default location. For example, if you change the location of the Downloads folder, your browsers will automatically download files to that folder, which will now be redirected to the new location.
I don’t recommend changing the new location to an external USB drive or a network drive as those tend to get disconnected occasionally and will start causing strange issues in Windows. It’s better to only do this if you have an additional disk in your system that is always connected. Enjoy!
