Change Location of Documents Folder?

[A4orce84]

Hey Everyone,

I installed an SSD recently, and am curious if there any way I can change the location of the Documents folder thats in the home folder? I have these exact folder names on another drive (my data drive) but was wondering if there is a way i can get the official folders pointing to the other hd so I can click on "documents" in finder and go to the correct location on my data drive?

Thanks.

 

[Intell]

Move the folder then make a symlink back to where it was.

 

[A4orce84]

Instructions on how to do this easily somewhere?

 

[Intell]

Open Terminal. Type this:

 mv ~/Documents/ /Volumes/EXTERNALDRIVE/Documents/

[enter]

ln -s /Volumes/EXTERNALDRIVE/Documents/ ~/Documents

 

[jbarley]

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[A4orce84]

That's only if the folders are named the same right? What if my "real" folder with all my documents are called "My Documents" ?

 

[smithrh]

Does 'mv' work across drives these days? If so, that's actually pretty nice.

Back in the day, you'd have to use 'cp' then delete the source files.

 

[Intell]

You can name the Documents folder whatever you like, just as long as the symlink in your user folder is named Documents. If it isn't, Mac OS X will simply recreate the Documents folder.

I've used the mv command to move folders and files between drives in OS X before without it complaining. Way back to Tiger or Leopard I believe.