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im trying to move my user and windows folders from my ssd to my hard drive to free up space, however it just keeps saying you do not have permission or access denied. No idea what time doing and all the tutorials ive seen online already have permission to change location.
 
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What should go on the SSD, in order of preference:
1. OS.
2. Applications and utilities.
3. Games.
4. Doc/Music/Video/Downloads

This is where drive size comes in. And for a 120GB drive, you don't want to go over ~90GB actual used space.
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Moving the whole /Users/ folder, and especially the Windows folder, is an exceptionally bad idea.
http://www.zdnet.com/dont-move-your-windows-user-profiles-folder-to-another-drive-7000022142/

So let's investigate:

What size is this SSD?
How much free space is on it?

There are a LOT of things you can move off that drive, but not the way you are doing it.
Continue down your current path, and I foresee a whole wipe and reinstall in your near future.
 
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Given windows the OS your going to want those on the boot drive which I guess is the SSD. For your user folders why? You could just set up a folder on your HD for downloads and docs. Then use mklink to link the user folder to the new folders on your HD. Copy the contents first and you will need to run cmd as admin. Edit the c:\users address as needed but I suggest only the downloads folder.

mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users
 
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mklink and junction points is an outdated concept.
If the system has to talk to the HDD for all that, then why have the SSD?

Doc/Music/Video/Pics/Downloads....those can all be redirected to the HDD, directly in the OS GUI.

Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html
 
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Yup Im more of an old school dos prompt guy. Both will get the files onto the HD. You have the more user friendly approach.
 
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I'm an old school DOS guy myself.
But when the GUI affords a more fine grained config built in, use it.
 
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i have an 120gb ssd (only 111gb though) and i have 28 gbs free, it is a lot that is free however im just trying to focus the ssd on things that take for ever to load up like games and such. i only have bout 44 gbs worth of games on there so im just trying to figue out what the rest is, and if i dont need it on there to get it off.
 
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1. WinDirStat can help visualize what is taking up your space
2. Temp files
3. pagefile size?
4. hibernation still on? Turn it off
5. Restore Point percentage?

So move the games off to the HDD.
For Steam, see this:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

and here:
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder
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There are a lot of things that are probably taking up your space. Find them, and delete or move.
Don't go all nuclear and try to automagically move everything.
A 120GB drive will work, but not if you're sucking up 40-50GB in games.
 
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isnt it best to have stuff like games on the ssd since they take longer to load up and ssd's are faster or is it just the same on the hard drive (this is just because rainbow 6 seige isnt loading up however it is on my harddrive and not ssd like the rest of my games(however this game is a lot bigger and more intensive than the rest))

 
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Given sufficient space on the SD, yes. It is preferable to have games on there.
However, a 120GB drive is not 'sufficient'. OS, a few applications, and 1 or 2 games.
Then you're bumping up against the drive capacity.

A game that lives on the SSD will load itself, and load levels faster, than if it lives on the HDD.
However...if you don't have enough space, you can't just magic up some new SSD space
 
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What should go on the SSD, in order of preference:
1. OS.
2. Applications and utilities.
3. Games.
4. Doc/Music/Video/Downloads

This is where drive size comes in. And for a 120GB drive, you don't want to go over ~90GB actual used space.
 
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okay, im just going to move my games and stuff onto my hdd and keep the os on the ssd. Im guessing i should move vids and pics onto the hdd.
So what stuff should i have on my ssd to use it to its full potential
 
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See the above order of preference
 
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