My laptop came with a 1TB SSD. Within a year or two, that was not enough. (I have more PDFs of antique American statute books than you can imagine.) I did not want to risk fauilure to copy over from my old drive C to my new drive, so I made my new drive D and told the BIOS to boot from the new drive.
Now, I have drive C with 160GB free, and drive D with all my files and programs installed on it. I would like to be able to clear drive C and map various directories (Pictures, Documents, Videos, Downloads) to drive C. Perhaps map all the non-programs to drive C.
In Linux, assuming that my memory of how symbolic links work is correct, you would create a symbolic link so that D:\Users\clayt\Documents actually points to C:\Documents so all references will actually turn into C:\Documents.
It appeears that a directory junction ("mklink /J link destinationfolder") does what is required.
I created a junction link
mklink /j "D:\users\clayt\testlink" C:\testlink
Then I copied files into D:\Users\clayt\testlink. They appeared in C:\testlink. If I deleted a file in D:\Users\clayt\testlink, it disappeared in C:\testlink.
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