How to move "My document" to D drive since I don't have much space in C??

I moved 'My Document" to D drive (right click properties and changed target path). But I see my word/excel files on both drives c %26amp; d. Does it mean...it takes space on both drives? I tried to delete files from C:/my document but everything is gone in D drive too. Why is it that?

How to move "My document" to D drive since I don't have much space in C??
To change the default location of "My Documents" to another location in hard disk is right click on "My Documents" icon on the desktop and change the text in the target text box to match the changed location such as "D:\My Documents". A system message follows as the above path does not exist and does the user want to create it, on clicking on the "yes" tab the default location of "My Documents" is changed to the new drive and all the content of the folder is moved (like cut and paste) to the new location as well. Other programs like MS Word, Excel, etc that use to save their files to "My Documents" by default now saves them in the new,modified location. It is better to make this change right after the Windows installation to avoid any sort of conflicts. In your case, however, instead of deleting the documents from the C drive you should have first copied them and pasted onto your D drive so that in no case your documents would have been lost.
Reply:maybe by changing the path means it keeps a copy like shortcut on both drives taking space on both drives. i recommend you open my documents and press CTRL+A to select all and then create a folder named my documents on D:\ and paste all the files in that
Reply:Moving My Documents isn't as easy as moving other folders.





Here is a good place to start. Though it is discussing moving files to a new partition, the steps will work the same for a separate hard drive.





http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125730...