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I fitted a 128GB Sandisk SSD and a WD 2TB drive to my desktop yesterday.

The aim is to have the operating system (W7) on the SSD along with any updates to the system. On my 2 Terra I want everything else. The SSD is set as C: and the main drive as D:

Now I find that many things that I want installed default to the SSD without me being able to install it to the main drive. My Canon scanner and my Creative webcam being amongst those.

Is there some way to force everything to install to the D: drive or can I just cut & paste the errant folders across?
 
Usually at the install stage of software it asks where you want to install stuff. Unless the scannor and webcam are using drivers etc that come with Win7 (or update) where I'm not so sure. Are they taking up a lot of space?
 
Programs that need the OS to work won't give you the option to install elsewhere whereas programs that can be installed elsewhere will give you the option to do so. However, I would put all programs on the SSD, trust me you will have enough space. The things you can and should move are all the Libraries (Users (My) Music, Pictures etc. which can be done by logging on for each User then in Explorer click on Libraries, then say for example Pictures and you should see 2 locations, one Public and one for that User. Right click on the User and you should get an option to 'move to' or something similar (it's a while since I did this). You can also go into Outlook and move the database file to your E: Drive (I forgot to say that if you have a DVD/CD/BluRay drive fitted it will default to D: drive (not recommended to change this) so your 2TB disk will be E: or any other letter you choose). One other thing, if you have LightRoom, Adobe recommend putting the database and preview files on the SSD but this gives a dilemma as the Preview files can get huge and easily fill the SSD! Hope this helps.
 
Really you want windows AND your programs on the C drive, It makes no sense whatsoever splitting them and placing them on normal a hard drive (unless you have no space left). 128Gb is plenty big enough for Windows and lots of other stuff like ofgfice, Photoshop, Lightroom and loads more. To get the speed of your programs starting up quickly, keep all your installations on the C drive as much as you can. The programs will start much quicker.
 
Wilko58 said:
One other thing, if you have LightRoom, Adobe recommend putting the database and preview files on the SSD but this gives a dilemma as the Preview files can get huge and easily fill the SSD! Hope this helps.
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You can easily move these folders if they are filling the drive up.
 
Wilko58 said:
........... One other thing, if you have LightRoom, Adobe recommend putting the database and preview files on the SSD but this gives a dilemma as the Preview files can get huge and easily fill the SSD! Hope this helps.
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As long as you don't keep 1:1 previews (set time to keep in prefererences) that shouldn't be a problem at all.
 
My previous HD was only 250GB and that was always getting full so I purchased a 1TB external drive for incremental full back ups and then a 500GB drive for image and music back ups.

I then took off the image and music files from the original drive to make space but left a folder for new image uploads from the camera. These were also RAW files.

The problem then was that everytime I uploaded a couple of hundred images/RAWs the drive got full again. Hence the new 2TB main drive.

I use both Photoshop and PSP X11, both need space, and also my web design software that needs to write to the drive continually. The lack of space left on the old HD was minimal leading to slow saving.

I'm sure that a little 128GB SSD will soon struggle to cope.

I will be trying a few of the suggestions on here relating to the movement of files though.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
How do you do that in Lightroom, Jim?
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Just specify the location for your catalogue in the preferences.

The only important file is the lrcat file. You can actually delete the rest if you wanted to although that will slow Lr down as it regenerates the previews.

So I have my Lightroom Catalouge and all other previews associated with it on a seperate drive (and backed up just the lrcat file).

I don't like it on the C drive.
 
Harriers9 said:
My previous HD was only 250GB and that was always getting full so I purchased a 1TB external drive for incremental full back ups and then a 500GB drive for image and music back ups.

I then took off the image and music files from the original drive to make space but left a folder for new image uploads from the camera. These were also RAW files.

The problem then was that everytime I uploaded a couple of hundred images/RAWs the drive got full again. Hence the new 2TB main drive.

I use both Photoshop and PSP X11, both need space, and also my web design software that needs to write to the drive continually. The lack of space left on the old HD was minimal leading to slow saving.

I'm sure that a little 128GB SSD will soon struggle to cope.

I will be trying a few of the suggestions on here relating to the movement of files though.
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That 128Gb drive will be fine so long as you keep it to Windows and the software you use. Any other files like images, music, web site files etc etc should be on the other drive and MOST IMPORTANTLY should also be backed up to another drive in some way.

Why does the Web Design software write continuously? That perhaps should go on the 2Tb drive as SSD's have a limiting span of writes I believe?

Do not however use your SSD drive to store your images or web files - when you upload them do so to the 2Tb drive.

JD
 
EOS_JD said:
Just specify the location for your catalogue in the preferences.

The only important file is the lrcat file. You can actually delete the rest if you wanted to although that will slow Lr down as it regenerates the previews.

So I have my Lightroom Catalouge and all other previews associated with it on a seperate drive (and backed up just the lrcat file).

I don't like it on the C drive.
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I thought you had found a way to move the preview files in Lightroom.

I have tried both ways with the catalog but prefer it on the SSD, my backups of the catalog and all the original photos are not on the SSD though.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
I thought you had found a way to move the preview files in Lightroom.

I have tried both ways with the catalog but prefer it on the SSD, my backups of the catalog and all the original photos are not on the SSD though.
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I have no problem with placing the catalogue on an SSD - just that I don't want it on my C drive as it uses a lot of space. My catalogue is on another SSD in my computer - but not my C drive.

I have quite a lot of drives - Mainly because I lost data a few years ago so when I buy a new drive, I normally buy 2 (one for backup). So I've space on the second SSD for myy catalogue :)
 
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My SSD is my C: drive.

So far, its not been a big deal with 120gb, I just keep a wee eye on it.

Agree about lots of drives too but as I said, thought you had found a neat way to move previews.
 
lol no such luck eh! Why would you want to move the previews away from the cat file? that is what Lr accesses. Just move the whole folder and then when you open Lr it will ask you to open the lrcat file and just point to it and job done.
 
Ah! That's not so bad.
 
EOS_JD said:
You can easily move these folders if they are filling the drive up.
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I've always had mine on another drive, just pointing out that Adobe recommend putting them on an SSD if you have one as your C: Drive but they don't point out that you would need a really big SSD (unless, you delete your preview files after a couple of weeks and you only use small previews and not 1:1s).
 
Mike, ignore the last post, I responded before I got to your next post which said exactly the same!
 
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