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Posted June 09, 2020
Why does GOG default all games to be installed in /My Documents for Windows 10? If I wanted a different directory, how would I go about setting that up?
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Posted June 09, 2020
It's up to the developer where they want saves, GOG don't have any control over that other that cloud saves if you use Galaxy. You could add a schedule task for backups of that folder to somewhere else, like once a week.
Posted June 10, 2020
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kensleylewis: Why does GOG default all games to be installed in /My Documents for Windows 10? If I wanted a different directory, how would I go about setting that up?
Are You talking about install or where it stores it’s files? If it’s install, then download the offline backup installers. When you run them there is an options button. In there you can tell the installer where to instal to. Done once, all installers will pick that up in future.
If it’s saves, then there are several places, and it’s up to devs. Pcgamingwiki generally will tell you where. Simply copy paste those files to backup saves.
Posted June 10, 2020
Installation:
Like nightcraw1er.488 wrote the offline installers can be configured.
In Galaxy you can select where you want to install a game, the last few selections are saved in a dropdown list. I have G:\Games for smaller games and H:\Games for my games SSD... now to teach Galaxy to install to either by size...

If it's about setting and savegames... sorry. Like amund wrote, every dev seem to have their own preference.
Posted June 10, 2020
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kensleylewis: Why does GOG default all games to be installed in /My Documents for Windows 10? If I wanted a different directory, how would I go about setting that up?
As everyone else has said, it's the developers that choose the save location. Modern conventions tend to put the saves in a user folder like My Documents, but there's still no absolute standard.
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