Hey everyone!! I have a quick question for you. Right now, I have some of my GOG games on my C: drive, and some on my D: drive. To make room on the C: drive, I need to my GOG games from there to my D: drive. Is this as simple as click and drag? Or is there a more complicated process to doing this? I hope someone can help me with this situation, so that all of my GOG games are centralized in one drive, and my C: drive will have more room for other files and programs. Any and all help is appreciated!! Thanks so much!!!

It might work for some games, but the GOG installers not only unpack files, they also manage entries in the Windows registry, so it is safer to uninstall the games and install them again on the D:\ drive. When uninstalling, you are given the choice to keep your savefile games so you would still have access to them (most of them will be on another folder like My Documents or App Data, but worst case, you'd just have to move them manually).

It might be, so there is no harm in trying, as you can always move it back.

That said, any uninstall routine will no longer work at the new location, and any Registry entries as already suggested will be broken. If savvy enough you might be able to edit such, but it can get real tricky.

So generally you are better off uninstalling and reinstalling to the new location.

To assist with that, you might be able to get away with backing up first and then overwriting, if you don't want to lose something from the original install folder.

To do that last suggestion, you would do something like the following.

1. Create a temporary folder on your 'D' drive. Maybe call it Tempry.
2. Copy you existing game folder on 'C' drive to that Tempry folder.
3. Uninstall the game on 'C' drive.
4. Reinstall the game on 'D' drive.
5. Move the game folder from Tempry to your new install location, overwriting your newly installed game there.

Of course, that will all take a good amount of time, depending on the number of files & sizes for the game. But it may be worth doing.

The only other question, is whether you had installed the game via Offline Installers or via Galaxy?
If so, then Galaxy settings could be compromised.
That said, Galaxy might have a migrate option, meaning you could avoid doing the steps I mentioned.
In fact Galaxy might be able to help you anyway, even with Offline Installer installations of a game.

I don't have a lot of experience with Galaxy, don't like it, but plenty of others should be able to help you.

If you're using GOG Galaxy, you can follow these steps to safely move a game to another drive.

1. Shut down GOG Galaxy.
2. Move the game folder from C: to D:.
3. Open GOG Galaxy, the game will no longer show up as installed.
4. Find the game in your library under Owned Games and select it.
5. Click the little button to the right of the Install button. Choose Manage Installation, then Import Folder.
6. Choose the game's new folder on the D:.
7. Galaxy will import it and it'll now show up again in your library as installed.

For most games this is enough and they'll work fine. But if you'd like to be sure everything is going work and that they'll uninstall properly in the future, you should also select Manage Installation, then Verify / Repair after the above steps. This will verify all the game files and update all prerequisites and registry entries.

Hope that helps.

In my experience, if the game doesn't rely on some registry entries then the move should be fairly easy. Games relying on the registry need to have them tweaked. Quite annoying.

I am trying to move my GOG games off of my C: drive and onto my D: drive. I found a list of supposed installed GOG games via the GOG Galaxy page - it shows that I have 7 games installed. On a whim, I went into my C: drive and found a bunch of installed GOG games that were not listed as installed on GOG Galaxy. I am not sure how to uninstall these games - I would hate to but it might be necessary - can anyone shed a bit of light on this situation?

The only folder in each of those GOG games I just mentioned is "!Downloads". Not sure what this is, can anyone please indicate what these are and can I just delete them?

In most cases you can move around the install directories as you please as it will just read the registry upon start if it needs it. Some doesn't really rely on the registry at all, and some just write new ones if it needs to, like The Witcher 3, which I just move around between the harddrives within the same computer and even to other computers.

As long as the pre-requisites libraries are installed on that PC then it shouldn't be a problem. Games that rely on hard paths on the other hand are not common, but they do exist, especially if you run a game with mods and the like, and the game needs to find something outside of the games directory structure.

As others have already written - just copy them and start the game. Only way to find out.

To uninstall you have 3 options:
* Use Galaxy (or as mentioned, just move them).
* Find the uninstall file either in the start menu as a shortcut or in the games directory (something like unins000.exe).
* Or, use an uninstaller program, like Geek Uninstaller or Bulk Crap Uninstaller (probably the easiest solution).

* Actually a 4 solution is to don't care about uninstalling them and just install/move them to a new location...

So, what I am getting from this thread is that it is possible to move (click and drag) folders from one drive to another, or I could uninstall the game(s) in question and reinstall where I need the games to be. Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread, I really do appreciate your help and advice.

That said, I am a bit in the dark with the game folders I have on one of my drives - the only folder in each game is just marked "!Downloads". I have no clue what this means. Can anyone please shed some light on this situation? Thanks so much for your help, I appreciate all of the help and support I am receiving!!

Basically yes, most can be moved fine though they will break the uninstallers (as they rely on registry entries which will be broken, however you can just try to uninstall it on the Control Panel/Programs and Features and it will error and say do you want to remove this entry.) (Assuming you are using Windows.)

Some games will not work as they need the registry entries, if thats the case then you will have to re-install them (just change the installation directory location in the GOG installer.) (Also assuming you are using Windows.)

And the !Downloads folder is a folder that GOG Galaxy will download a game's offline installers to. (It might also be also for a Galaxy temporary download/install of a game, i'm not sure) but either way its fine to delete. (Also assuming you are using Windows.)

Edit: If you are using Galaxy then make sure its closed and once you've moved the games over open it and go to the Cog in the top left, then Add Games & Friends, then Scan folders for GOG games and point it to your new folder and it should setup anything thats needed like registry entries.

Oh, awesome!!! Yeah, with most of the games, I have no problem reinstalling them. I have been playing more mainstream games as of late, but I have recently dived back into some of the older, more nostalgia-inducing games. Fun times!!

So I guess the !Downloads folders are fine for deletion. Do they serve any purpose at this point? I am not sure why they are there, but if you say they can be deleted, I will follow suit.

And yes, I am using GOG Galaxy for installing games. Thank you so much for your help and guidance for changing where games are installed!!! That is very informative, and I appreciate your help.

No purpose Galaxy creates them for offline installers and, maybe tempory game installation if however the game is already installed and works fine then they are fine to delete (they should be empty anyway.) If they are not then either something has started installing or you've started downloading the offline installers either way its fine.