View Full Version : How do I save to my D drive?
bbretreds
Jun 26, 2011, 09:54 PM
My C drive is almost full
Curlyben
Jun 26, 2011, 10:12 PM
A serious clean up would be useful as well as moving all of your DATA files to an alternate drive.
ScottGem
Jun 27, 2011, 04:46 AM
Same way you save to any drive assuming your D Drive is a partition on your hard drive. When you choose File>Save, you specify a folder on the other drive.
However, for many people their D drive is an optical (DVD, CD) drive so you generally don't save to that.
So to answer we need to know more about your system.
Appzalien
Jun 29, 2011, 07:10 AM
Buy an External USB Drive and move all your downloaded and saved stuff over there (cut and paste a little at a time). Use your C drive only for the OS and programs you install (I install all my games to D\Program Files, a folder I created for that purpose). Most download applications have an options section where you can tell it where to download to. I like to make a folder on my D or external drive called 0Temp. The 0 ensures its at the top of the drive so its easy to find, and from there I split stuff up into specific folders like Utilities > Audio or Video > or Security (antivirus) etc.
ScottGem
Jun 30, 2011, 03:25 AM
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bbretreds does not find this helpful : when I click on"file" the "save" option does not allow a choice of where to save
If you are saving a NEW file, then you WILL get a Dialog box allowing you to choose a drive and folder. If you are saving an existing file, then you will have to use Save As.
Appzalien
Jun 30, 2011, 05:19 AM
Your missing an important point ScottGem. If his C drive is full he has to deal with that first since all downloads go to C > Temp first and then get transferred to where he wants from there. If there is no room on C where the Local > Temp files are, he's going to have trouble no matter how he saves.