Using a separate drive for My Documents for multiple users

I imagine using an SSD as a system drive and a hard drive as a data reader, both connected internally via SATA, is common. My question is about pointing My Documents on this disc of data instead of the system drive. Steve Winograd has answered the question for a single user to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/move-the-my-documents-folder-to-another-drive/a41eaabb-2c5b-4502-85ba-fd49a007fd82.

I understand that my Documents is just a pointer that can target any player. But what happens when several users do? For example, the data drive is partitioned as a big drive, so the second user replaces the first pointer or all users simply point to the name of the partition, which allows all users to share the drive?

Just make sure you have unique files on the other disk for each user

There are various methods to have your documents in one location other than the default location of origin.  Steve Winograd showed one.

Suppose you have two users, Alice and Bob, and you want to have documents on the D: drive, which is a traditional spinning rather than C: drive, which is an SSD.

If you follow the instructions of Steve, you do the following:

  1. Log in as Alice
  2. Create a folder on drive D: named Alice, and a new subfolder in the Alice folder named My Documents.  In other words, create the D:\Alice\My Documents
  3. Follow Steve beginning with step 2, using Documents D:\Alice\My as 'new folder '.
  4. Log in as Bob (you can just click on the arrow on the Shut Down button and select "change user")
  5. Create a folder on drive D: named Bob, and a new subfolder in the folder named My Documents Bob.   In other words, create the D:\Bob\My Documents
  6. Follow Steve beginning with step 2, using Documents D:\Bob\My as 'new folder '.

Your directory structure should look like this:

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