You can simply move files or whole folders from your SSD to your HDD or NAS. You can do that in the program or via the Send to HDD feature.
In the main tab you can select which file(s) or folder(s) you want to move, choose (multiple) from the suggestions or paste paths, separated with semicolons.
Then you can specify the path you want to move the data to:
By default it moves your data (e.g. C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\YourDataDirectory\) to your the configured export path (e.g. F:\SSD).
From there the program reconstructs the original path (e.g. F:\SSD\C\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\YourDataDirectory\)
You can disable that reconstruction by checking ‘Use absolute path’. Furthermore you can change that path and (optionally) make that changed path the default.
You can customize the windows ShellFolders (e.g. Documents, Downloads..) from this program. For these operations the program has to run as administrator.
To do that go to the ‘Edit ShellFolders’ tab. There you can select the ShellFolder you want to edit. Then you can inspect the current path, select a new path and apply that change.
Furthermore you can decide whether to move existing items (strongly recommended) and whether to change dependent ShellFolders. Please touch these settings only if you really know what you are doing.
You can change the location where windows indexing files are located. Therefore enter the ‘Search indexing’ tab. There you can change the location of windows search indexing. This feature is in alpha.
The program is able to monitor folders (e.g. %localappdata%). If there is a new subfolder or file created the program can react to that it 3 ways:
To configure that feature fo to the ‘SSD Monitoring’ tab. There you can enable SSD Monitoring and add, remove or change monitored folders
In the pagefiles tab you can customize the three pagefiles windows has
You can add and remove pagefiles and adjust their size, and apply the configuration
You can set the drive of the swapfile This feature is in alpha.
You can en- or disable the hibfil.sys
The program has a feature which adds a ‘Store on HDD’ option to the ‘Send to’ option of the windows explorer. When you want to use that feature check ‘Show Store on HDD in Send to menu of the explorer’ in the Settings tab
Such a big project has multiple settings (and many more planned), which are documented in the following sections:
The GUI exists (for 99.8%) in english and german to change that go to Settings > Language, select the language you want and click “Safe and restart”
Such a program needs many authorizations, but due to the fact that it is open-source, so you can read each line of code and look what the program does with your authorizations. First of all you can run the program as administrator to access most functionality. If you dom’t want to start it as admin every time yourself, you can enable “Ask for administrator privileges on startup” in the settings tab.
For some operations (which I am trying to solve differently) the program needs more rights due to windows weird User Account Control (UAC), which makes it required for the program to run some commands “as user” therefore it needs the name and password of an administrator account. These are NOT stored between sessions. These are securely stored as SecureString and thereby encrypted, so that even if my program would want to it could not get your password in plain text. To erase these from memory in a session go to Settings > Authorizations and click “Delete Credentials” thereby your encrypted password gets disposed.