Viewed k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Just moving the folder is not enough. To create the Directory Junction Symbolic Link do the following: Open a cmd window with administrative privileges.
Improve this answer. Works for the whole user directory too. Chema it does, but you have to be very careful to not change any of the folder permissions, otherwise a user won't be able to load their profile anymore. FYI, a junction is a mount point, not a symlink.
Henrik, I'd use a junction, which basically acts like what's called a "bind" mount point in Unix. The practical difference is when they're traversed while reparsing relative symlinks that have "..
A junction mount point behaves more like a cross-filesystem hardlink in that case, so its ".. If you are looking for data in Windows 7 that is being stored inside of the AppData folder, you might be wondering where that folder is located. Considering how important that folder is for a lot of actions, you may be getting frustrated as you try to locate this elusive file location. Windows 7 hides the AppData folder by default, because it contains a lot of information that is vitally important to the way your installed programs run.
But if you need to access a file inside of this folder, such as a Microsoft Outlook. Another way that you can locate the Appdata folder is to browse to it directly. The file path for the AppData folder is:. While one of the more common reasons that you may need to unhide folders in Windows 7 is to access the AppData folder, it can certainly come up in other situations, too.
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The AppData folder is used to save files from certain programs on your PC. You can copy that folder if you want to make a backup of your data, but moving it is not recommended. If you don't mind my asking, why do you want to move it?
Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 1 person found this reply helpful. In Windows 7, we can change application data folders location using GUI also. You can open application data folder by running appdata from Run window. If you see any issues in changing application data folder location please write it in the comments section below. In Windows XP we can change the location of Application data folder by editing the registry value Appdata under the following node in registry.
Instead of opening registry editor and editing the key manually you can simply run the following command in a command window. Opening application data folder from Run window. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. My RAM drive will work much better.
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