SSDs, or solid-state drives, are much faster than the fastest disk drive, but their price-to-capacity ratio means that most users who boot their systems from an SSD don’t have much extra room for programs and data, especially big stuff like video and games. The usual solution is to park data and even Temp folders on a conventional HDD, but that can compromise the performance that you paid for when you bought an SSD, and some programs and games might not even run. Moba’s SymMover offers an interesting alternative. This simple freeware moves data to another disk and creates a “junction” linking the old destination and the new one. Your software and games will still run normally from the new destination. But you can also use SymMover to quickly shuttle your data back and forth between disks, letting you keep the games and software you use most on your SSD or other main drive and store your other data on a slower high-capacity disk.

SymMover’s interface is simple, with identical views for selecting Folders in Source and Folders in Destination, either individually or via Select All and Select None options. Down the middle runs a toolbar for adding and removing programs and files, changing the destination folder, and moving items from the Source side to Destination and back. The Web-based Help file offers good explanations, including troubleshooting.

SymMover is very easy to use. The interface shows installed programs on one tab and a tree view on the other; we simply selected those we wanted to move, and the tool did the rest. SymMover doesn’t work with every kind of file and program; for instance, it only works with NTFS file systems and wouldn’t work with a FAT-formatted USB drive. It won’t move open or running programs, and it requires Administrator privileges for some actions. Some things won’t move, such as the My Pictures folder, but it would move subfolders containing images. Log files explained failed moves. SymMover offers an ingenious and easy solution to moving big chunks of data between your hard drives, whether they’re SSDs or not.

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Movie collections–either digital or DVD–can get a little unwieldy if you don’t have a way to manage them. My Movie Library is an easy-to-use program that makes keeping track of your films quite simple. It doesn’t have as many features as some similar programs we’ve seen, but its simplicity more than makes up for it.

The program’s interface is sleek and attractive, with a set of icons across the top that give access to the program’s major features. Using the Add Movie dialog, you can simply enter the title of a film and have the program retrieve information, including a cover image, from IMDb. Movie titles are displayed in a grid that includes their release year, genre, actors, director, and IMDb rating, and the list can be sorted by any of these headings so that you can quickly find what you’re looking for. If you have your movies saved on your computer, it’s quite easy to associate video files with records in My Movie Library; you can then use My Movie Library to launch your films in your default media player. We liked it that My Movie Library lets you create backups of your data so it can easily be restored in the event of data loss. The program’s online Help file is well written and thorough, but it’s likely that most users will never have to consult it, as this program really couldn’t be easier to use. Overall, we liked My Movie Library quite a bit; it’s attractive, streamlined, and not bogged down with clunky interfaces or useless features like so many other movie organizers.

My Movie Library installs and uninstalls without issues.

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