To enable the relocation feature, select a destination drive in the Relocation Tab of the Settings menu. The destination drive is used as the destination for relocated application files and folders.

The Relocation settings tab shows a sorted list of compatible drives available on the computer. The first drive on the list is the drive with the most available storage space. The drive that is currently chosen as the destination drive is show in bold.

The list does not include non-NTFS and removable drivers. No drive can be chosen if there is only one compatible drive available on the computer, and the relocation feature is disabled. A driver without free space cannot be chosen as a destination drive.

Note: The relocation feature is enabled on computers with two or more non-removable NTFS drivers.

Select the destination drive in the drive list and press the “Apply” or “OK” buttons to save your choice. From that point on, any new relocations are done on that destination drive. The PickMeApp Session log will then show the following message:

“Drive <name of drive><Disk Label:> was chosen as relocation destination.”

Note: If a destination driver was deleted, select a new destination drive to enable the relocation feature.

Relocate Single Application

Once a destination drive is chosen, you may start the relocation of a single application by pressing the “Relocate” button available on the Application Bar of any installed application (Qualified and Non-Qualified).

Note: You cannot relocate an application that is originally installed on the destination drive (e.g., disk C:).

PickMeApp starts the relocation of an installed application by ending all running application processes. Please make sure you have saved all application documents prior to starting the relocation process.

The relocation may last from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the size of the application and speed of the source and destination drivers. In some cases, you may experience a short period of desktop flickering. This happens when PickMeApp is trying to release some locked files prior to the relocation.

Note: It is important that during relocation, the computer is not accidentally switched off (e.g., pressing the power button), otherwise the application may end up in a non-operational state.

Software suites (e.g., Microsoft Office) are handled as a single application. All applications in a software suite are relocated at once.

In some cases, you may be prompted to restart your computer and to run PickMeApp again to finalize the relocation of applications. You may restart computer once per several relocations.

Make sure to run PickMeApp again after the computer restarts. PickMeApp Light and portable PickMeApp Pro users must manually run PickMeApp again. PickMeApp Pro users that enabled starting PickMeApp during computer startup will have the PickMeApp automatically restart.

Relocate Several Applications

PickMeApp Pro can relocate several selected installed applications at once.

Select the applications that you want to relocate and press the “Relocate” button available on Qualified and Non-Qualified applications profiles. The selected applications are now relocated one by one. You can stop or skip the relocation of applications during the process.

Make sure to restart the computer and run PickMeApp again if at least one application relocation requires a computer restart.

Relocated Applications Filter

You may find relocated applications by applying the <relocated> filter in the Filter Bar.

The <relocatable> filter helps find applications that can be relocated to the destination drive. The filter excludes applications that are installed on the current destination drive (e.g., disk C:).

Relocated Applications Info

To see detailed information about a relocated application, click the “Support information” link at the Application Bar, along with other detailed info about the application the dialog provides:

• The size of the relocated folders (the freed-up space from the original disk)
• The destination drives.
• The relocated folders and their status

Remaining applications means to return application folders to their original location after relocation.

After an application is successfully relocated, the font color of each relocated application is changed to blue font and the Relocate button is changed to the Remain button.

Note: The Remain button is disabled for relocated applications waiting for a computer and PickMeApp restart.

The Remaining action is very similar to the relocation of application. The remaining process may last from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the size of the application and speed of the source and destination drivers. In some cases, you may experience a short period of desktop flickering. This happens when PickMeApp is trying to release some locked files prior to remaining the application.

Remaining applications may require restarting the computer to clean up the remaining data from the relocation. In such cases, PickMeApp prints information message inside the Session Log. The “Restart” pop-up is not shown.

Note: The remaining application fails with an error message if there is not enough space left on the original drive.

Note: You can only remain applications one at a time. There is no batch mode available for remaining applications.

We strongly recommend creating Windows Restore Points prior to relocating an application. PickMeApp Pro users have access to the “Create Restore Points per PickMeApp Action” feature described here: (link).

To learn more about how to create Windows Restore Points, follow this link: (link).

PickMeApp Pro users can run relocate and remain actions using command line. Two new CLI switches "/r" and "/m" are available to relocate and remain applications (see the PickMeApp CLI for more info).

It is possible to relocate a previously relocated application to another drive by using CLI. This option is not available via PickMeApp UI.

Running and Closing relocated applications

There should be no difference in running or closing a relocated application. You can create shortcuts and add them to the start menu the same way as you would with a non-relocated application.

Uninstalling relocated application

The best way to uninstall a relocated application is to use the PickMeApp Uninstall Feature described here: (see link)

To allow a proper clean up after uninstalling a relocated application, make sure that PickMeApp is running during the uninstall process.

In a case when a relocated application was uninstalled while PickMeApp was not running, the application’s relocated files and folders might be left on the destination folder. A manual cleanup will be required in this scenario.

Upgrading relocated application

There are two scenarios for application upgrades:

1. The upgrade setup overwrites application files by using new files without altering folder locations. The PickMeApp Relocate feature is designed to support the process in this case. The upgraded application is still relocated after the upgrade, although some new application folders might not be relocated.
2. The upgrade setup uninstalls the old application and then installs the new application version. Currently, PickMeApp cannot distinguish that scenario from a regular uninstall. The newly installed version of the application is not relocated. To keep the application relocated, repeat the relocation process.

If you need to contact PickMeApp support about relocation or remain installed applications , please provide PickMeApp Support with the following files:

• Log files located at %appdata%\PickMeApp
• GDPR records located at the hidden folder $PmaData at %systemdrive%