Running out of space in your C drive ? Using SSD with limited space and want to create more room ?
You can use Windows command Junction, a very simple and smart way to link your Folder to another Folder. Its basically creating a shortcut from your original path to your desire target folder.
You can download Junction here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768
Use junction to list junctions:
Usage: [-s]
-s Recurse subdirectories
Examples:
To determine if a file is a junction, specify the file name:
junction c:\test
To list junctions beneath a directory, include the –s switch:
junction -s c:\
To create a junction c:\Program-Files for “c:\Program Files”:
C:\>md Program-Files
C:\>junction c:\Program-Files “c:\Program Files”
To delete a junction, use the –d switch:
junction -d c:\Program-Files
For example in windows 7 64bit environment. You want to move all Google data from your C: drive to D: drive. This is how you do this.
Steps:
1. Copy the folder C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google to anywhere you want, in this example we put in D:\Google
2. After the copy process complete, double check if everything ok. Now delete the Google folder from C:
3. Download the Junction and unzip it to anywhere you want, in this case I put it in my C:\Windows
4. Now start your command prompt and go to C:\Windows
5. Type: junction C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google D:\Google
6. Press enter and you are done, a shortcut icon will be created and now the data will be stored in D:\Google