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Pointing folder to different disk

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202624732 views
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Say I have a D-drive and a folder SomeData. For performance reasons I would like the data in SomeData to be on a different harddisk (SSD), while keeping the paths intact. So the file D:\SomeData\ImportantFile.txt would still be in that path, even though actually on a different disk. Can I "mount" (…

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Yes, you can mount disks as folders using the Change drive letter and paths function in , or the command-line tool. (But see below...) However, even on the new disk, it is usually better to keep the files contained within a directory – to prevent it…

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