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Moving C Docs to a new drive

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:12 pm
by bmeister1
Is there a way for me to tell games to not store any information in the c documents folder. I would like to move all of this files into a new folder on a separate drive. Example C:\Users\FFG\Documents. I do not want anything to be stored in this folder because this takes up way to much space. I want to move all of the folders and all future data to a permanent location. I want all of my game data to be on this path D:\My Documents instead of what is the default.

Re: Moving C Docs to a new drive

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:05 am
by bmeister1
I am guessing that this would solve my issue??
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/87 ... ation.html

Re: Moving C Docs to a new drive

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 3:24 pm
by Murdock
Yeah. Looks like that will work.

Re: Moving C Docs to a new drive

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:36 am
by Digger[NJLP]
Hey guys I think its a UAC issue more then anything else.
When the program lacks the authority to write save game data, it will be saved to documents.
It should be if anywhere in the <user>\appdata folder.

So go through the installation directory for a game and set all exe's to run as administrator.
Test this with a game with a folder, move it out of documents, one run as admin is set, run the game. In game start a new game and save and quit.
Check if it created a folder.
If it creates one it's hard coded in to the game.

If you want it off the drive, then I would reconfig the users folder location.

Re: Moving C Docs to a new drive

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:01 pm
by bmeister1
I understand what you are saying. I did buy a bigger ssd for now. I now have a 500 gb ssd instead of a 120. I will try your suggestion. Thanks.