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Old June 23rd 06, 08:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.outlook,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.office.setup
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Default Is there a way to relocate Document and Settings from C drive to other drives?

Hi all,

I am running out of space on the system drive C drive:

In particular, I have 11GB space originally on C, I thought it should been
sufficient when I partitioned my harddisks a while ago.

Now after taking a look, I found the breakdown is as follows, roughly:

Documents and Settings: 4.5GB
Windows: 4GB
Program Files: 1.5GB
Pagefile.sys: 1GB


I guess I could not safely re-partition the drives to grab some space from
other partitions to this C drive.

But I guess I could relocate some files.

I guess I cannot relocate Windows and Pagefile.sys; and it is going to
relatively harder to relocate Program Files...

But can I relocate "Documents and Settings" safely?

In particular, I've found the following directory takes about 3GB space:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data

More specifically, the Google Desktop Search silently occupied 1.5GB. I have
tried to set my preferences, but amazingly Google Desktop Search does not
even offer an option to change the location of their cache file from C drive
to other places...

And also under Applicaton Data folder, Outlook occupies 2.1GB-I have a lot
of emails stored.

I really want to relocate these documents safely, esp. Outlook Emails. But
is there a way to do this safely? I am really worrying about if I do
something wrong, then my whole email system will screw up...

What can I do? Could you please help?

Thanks a lot!



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