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I upgraded my laptop by changing my storage from HDD to SSD (switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu right after) after I finished building my desktop. With that spare 2.5" HDD, I decided to remove the DVD player and replaced it with the HDD that was originally in my laptop (everything erased).

Now, I want to know how to move the Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc. from SSD to HDD. I just want to use the SSD for games & other software

I just wish it was as easy as Windows (I just need to create folders on my HDD and have them redirect to their respective folders).

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Assuming you HDD is well formatted and mounted in Ubuntu. In other words, you can access the HDD from a file manager (e.g. Nautilus). You can just create the required folders Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc. on you HDD. And move your files to these new locations.

Next, there are some things you could do to make things a little more convenient.

For example, you could edit the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. This file defines the links to the special Documents, Downloads, etc folders (these are shown in Nautilus on the left). The default content of this file looks like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

You can just edit this file to reflect the changes you made.

To resemble the original situation even more, you could add bind mounts to your /etc/fstab file. If you go this route, you don't need to change the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. You would just bind mount for example the new location of the Documents folder (on your HDD), to the original location in your HOME folder. You could accomplish this by adding a line like this to your /etc/fstab:

/<mount-point-hdd>/Documents /home/<user-name>/Documents none rw,bind 0 0
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