{"id":4903,"date":"2015-10-24T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2015-10-24T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T18:43:24","slug":"how-to-use-symbolic-link-to-move-google-chrome-appdata-folder-to-other-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/others\/tips\/how-to-use-symbolic-link-to-move-google-chrome-appdata-folder-to-other-location\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Symbolic Link to move Google Chrome AppData folder to other location"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few months back I bought a new high end laptop with i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. Decided to give a shot to “SSD hard disc<\/a>” over conventional hard disc. Performance of my system is incredibly fast, I have SQL Server, Jenkins, Command line Dataloader jobs, Apex static code analyzer all running almost at same time.\u00a0Windows OS boots up in almost 2-3 seconds only, as compared to 15-25 sec previously. However because of decision of “SSD Drive” I\u00a0had to compromise storage capacity. My “C” drive is only around 150 GB however D drive has lot of space. After analyzing many folders, I found that google chrome browser creates its temporary folder in “C” drive even though I have installed it explicitly in “D” drive. I wanted to move “Appdata” folder of google chrome to “D” drive to make sure I have enough space in “c” drive.<\/p>\n

I came across “Symbolic link<\/a>” concept in operating System. In “Symbolic link”\u00a0folder points to other location and its very useful technique to solve problem of storage. We can create symbolic link of many folder from “c” drive to any other location where we have good enough space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, I wanted to point Chrome folder of “C” drive to “D” folder. For chrome it would be still in “C” drive but physically all files will be stored somewhere else. Let’s see how I did it.<\/p>\n

Open Command prompt, you may need to open it as administrator if you will face any error in next steps.<\/p>\n

\"Run<\/a>
Run Command prompt as Admin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Make sure before running below command, “C:\\Users\\<Your_user_name>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome” should not exist and destination folder in my case “D:\\G2\\ChromeAppData” should exist. You would like to take backup of existing folder, delete it and paste it to new location.<\/p>\n

Below command is used to create symbolic link<\/p>\n

\n

mklink \/d “C:\\Users\\Jitendra\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome” “D:\\G2\\ChromeAppData”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Using<\/a>
Using mklink command of Windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After running above command, your folders will look like :<\/p>\n

\"Reloacating<\/a>
Reloacating Google AppData folder to other location after mklink command<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This technique can be used at many places, I did same for Outlook folder as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using Symbolic Link to move high storage folders to new location like moving Google Chrome AppData folder to other location<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"jz_research_post":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[109,219,350],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-google","tag-windows-xp","tag-windowsos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":821,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/microsoft\/google-desktop-search-in-folder\/","url_meta":{"origin":4903,"position":0},"title":"Google Desktop Search in Folder","author":"Jitendra","date":"August 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This article explains the basics to use Google desktop and Tips to search for file in Particular Folder","rel":"","context":"In "Microsoft"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/category\/microsoft\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Google Desktop Search","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Google-Desktop-Search.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5824,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/sql\/sqlserver\/sql-server-create-folders-using-t-sql-ole-automation\/","url_meta":{"origin":4903,"position":1},"title":"SQL Server \u2013 Create Folders using T-SQL & OLE automation","author":"Jitendra","date":"November 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tutorial to create folders in SQL Server using Transact-SQL and OLE Automation Stored Procedures","rel":"","context":"In "SQL Server"","block_context":{"text":"SQL Server","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/category\/sql\/sqlserver\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SQL Server \u2013 Create Folders using T-SQL & OLE automation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SQL-Server-%E2%80%93-Create-Folders-using-T-SQL-OLE-automation.png?fit=1200%2C580&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SQL-Server-%E2%80%93-Create-Folders-using-T-SQL-OLE-automation.png?fit=1200%2C580&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SQL-Server-%E2%80%93-Create-Folders-using-T-SQL-OLE-automation.png?fit=1200%2C580&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SQL-Server-%E2%80%93-Create-Folders-using-T-SQL-OLE-automation.png?fit=1200%2C580&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SQL-Server-%E2%80%93-Create-Folders-using-T-SQL-OLE-automation.png?fit=1200%2C580&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4756,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/others\/tips\/fix-git-errors-permission-denied-and-cannot-spawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":4903,"position":2},"title":"Fix Git errors : Permission denied , Cannot spawn , No supported authentication methods available","author":"Jitendra","date":"August 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, I came across few errors of Git and found very time consuming to fix those. 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