Program-File Disk-to-disk transfer programs

[BonzaiDuck]

I set up my new auxiliary PC build with a 256GB Sam-EVO. This is the system-boot disk and location for essential MS/Windows programs and most-frequently accessed files -- for instance my Outlook folders and *.PST archive files, or a working folder of "general" or "working" Word documents or similar text files. Small potatoes in terms of file growth; easy relocation to other disks without changing much concerning access.

In addition to the SSD, there is a 500GB WD Blue SATA-III drive on an SATA-II controller, and a 60GB SSD on the SATA-III controller with the first SSD. The Blue is cached through the Mushie Chronos 60GB drive.

When I began the actions to download the UbiSoft FarCry4 -- complimentary license I got for free -- I installed the UBI installer on the C: drive by clicking too quickly through the install dialogs. I didn't think that the location of this program would pre-empt me from installing the FarCry program files on my cached Blue drive, but it did.

So I ended up adding another 32GB of usage to my boot SSD. Right now -- after the complete install -- I've used 54% of the boot-disk space. This is still a very healthy use of the disk, with plenty of room for the smaller potatoes.

I looked into the likelihood of program storage transfer utilities, and so far came across a couple in these links:

http://lifehacker.com/5626931/steam...ations-to-free-up-space-on-your-primary-drive

http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm

What's the skinny about these programs? Who knows of any alternative, or a better option? What is it? [and so on . . ]

I can take my time to seek some forum insights, because the mislocated installation doesn't much affect anything right now. But I'm eager for those insights.

 

[Elixer]

Let the installer do what it wants (which is usually not ask you, and install someplace on the C partition--though, if it offers an option, then you don't have to do the below. ).
Anyway, in your case...
Now, find where it installed it, and copy that folder 'as is' to your DATA drive/partition.
Now, create a symlink of that folder at the original location.
I have used https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx before to do this, and it works fine.
The easy way to do it is install this: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html and then you can do it from the shell, and not command line.

 

[postmortemIA]

the other option would be to make symbolic link that makes files appear to still be on C: where they are on D : ...

 

[Elixer]

the other option would be to make symbolic link that makes files appear to still be on C: where they are on D : ...

Heh, isn't that what I said ?
That is what a junction/ symlink is.

 

[postmortemIA]

Heh, isn't that what I said ?
That is what a junction/ symlink is.

yes, sorry, somehow I missed your reply.