Smaller home folder for encryption  - cant move movies

i wanted to set up file vault and encrypt my home folder - but i have a lot of movies and music and pictures- so it would be wasteful to encrypt all that.
i dragged the movies from my home folder to the first window that opens when you open the drive, but that didn't seem to move them out of my home folder which still lists 60gigs.
where should i move these items to, to keep them out of my home folder for fast encryption?
also, on a mac it seems hard to move a folder to another location on the same drive. if i drag it there the computer spends time copying it there and then i have to delete it. i've found a way to make this happen in automater but its not so easy and doesn't work great. is there a shortcut for simply draging files to where you want them to be without them copying? (i'm talking about within one drive)
thanks for your help,
m

If you are on the same volume dragging and dropping any file or folder "moves" the file or folder. If you use COMMAND-C to "copy" a file or folder and COMMAND-V to "paste" it in another location then this "copies" the file or folder. If you open a Finder window on your "source" and another one on the "destination" then you can simply drag the file or folder from the "source" window to the "destination" window. This will "move" not "copy" the "source" to the "destination."
If you don't want to encrypt your Movies, Music, Pictures folders then copy them to an external hard drive and delete their contents from the internal drive.
Alternatively, you can create a separate user account in which you will only keep your sensitive information and encrypt that account leaving the other account unencrypted but containing no sensitive data.
Alternatively, put all your sensitive data into a separate folder and encrypt the folder. For added security get an external hard drive and store the encrypted folder on the external drive. You can then disconnect the external drive and lock it away for added security.

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