Filling up C drive limits the number of applications you can install and might even show low disk space warning. Not to mention, when you re-install Windows or when you cannot boot into it, you might lose all the files in the Downloads folder. To avoid that, you can move the downloads folder to another drive in Windows This makes sure that you are not filling up the C drive with random downloads.
Personally, moving the downloads folder to another drive is one of the first things I do after installing Windows. Before you can move downloads folder, you first have to create a new downloads folder in the new location. The new location will be added to the properties window. You will be prompted whether you would like to move all the files from the old to new location. I recommend you to move the files so that you can access all the files in the new location.
As soon as you click on the button, Windows will move all the files to the new location. Windows will also change the folder icon automatically. Step 2: Run the tool. Then click System Disk in the left function menu and select Downloads Transfer in the upper place of the right pane.
And you can see that all the downloaded files have already been checked for you. The files are now in your destination folder. Highlight the files you want to move, press and hold your right mouse button, and drag-and-drop the files to where you want to move them. When you release the mouse button, a menu appears, similar to the example shown in the picture.
Select the Move here option to move the files. For drag-and-drop to work, you'll need to be able to see the window of where you are moving the files. To use the "Move to Folder" command, select the file by clicking the file name. Click the Edit menu near the top-left of the window and select the Move to Folder option.
In the new window browse to the folder you would like to move the file, then click the Move button to move the file to that folder.
If you are using Windows 8, once the files are selected the Move to option is shown under the Home tab. For example, if you want to move a file named "stats. If you'd like to move multiple files, you can separate the file names with a comma , as in the following command.
In the next example, we are moving the file "example. Say, for example, we have a folder with a bunch of subfolders with ebooks in them that we want to copy. Instead of changing the directory and running the command again, we can get PowerShell to scan through each folder and subfolder, and then copy all of a specific file type to the destination.
The Get-ChildItem part of the cmdlet lists all the files in the current directory and all of its subfolders with the -Recurse switch with the AZW file extension and pipes them the symbol to the Copy-Item cmdlet.
Move-Item follows the same syntax as the Copy-Item cmdlet. Type the following cmdlet to move all files of a specific file type from a directory and its subfolders:.
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