My download folder allows access to different folders

I am running windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I use a 120 GB SSD to run my OS and that fills up very quickly. So I decided to spend my downloads folder on my F drive which is a disk of 1 TB for the most part empty. My Music folder and all my games on my disc D (a 2 TB drive).

It's all pretty easy to do, but I would like to know how to add multiple locations to my downloads folder link? Basically, I would like to add two locations in the folder "downloads". My reasoning is that there are probably other programs on my computer that will always add the files in the folder on the C drive. Which is ok, and why, I always want to keep an eye on it.

If possible how?

I tried using a semi colon (;) to separate the various places, but which did not work.

Bruce

Hi Bruce,.

You can create a folder in the drive F:\ and add this folder to the downloads folder in the library. Right-click on the new folder in the drive F:\ and select 'Add to library' and then select 'downloads '. For more information, see this article:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/include-folders-in-a-library

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