Hey,

I'm running GOG Galaxy to play Witcher 3. Unfortunately, the client downloaded the game to C, because it wouldn't ask me where to install and I didn't mind it. Now it's all gone to C. Since that is my SSD where I only install system tools, I moved it to E, which is another SSD. Now Galaxy won't see the game anymore and says its files be corrupted. Now I changed the settings to where to install the games and downloads etc. to E, but whenever I ask the client to check the integrity of the files, it will start reserving space on C, even though I changed all settings to E.

Now I know I can still play witcher starting by the exe simply, but I would like to use Galaxy. Now how can I make Galaxy basically just recognize that the game files are in E and are not corrupted w/o having to dl it all again?

Best

You made the mistake of not setting the installation, download and temp files at the start. I surmise that since Galaxy is still in Beta, that the config system is a bit hokey. So I suggest you do the following:

NEW: As per BKGaming's suggestion, move the game folder to E: if you haven't already. Read his suggestions.

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ORIGINAL suggestion:

1. Uninstall the game.
2. Uninstall Galaxy.
3. Delete the Galaxy installation directory.
4. Install Galaxy again.
5. Check the box "Manage all folders manually". Set the installation and download directories in Galaxy.
6. Go to the place where you think the Witcher 3 installation file(s) were downloaded to. They should still be on your hard drive, unless you deleted them.
7. Install Witcher 3 to E:
8. Run Galaxy and click the "+" sign in the top of the left side menu and point it at where you installed W3 on E:.
9. It should be able to detect the game.

You don't want to uninstall without making a copy of the game folder first or making sure it's in a different location than were you told the client to look for it, then you can uninstall and move the copy to the new location on E. Then scan and import. Otherwise you might lose your game copy as Galaxy doesn't store anything but the installed files unless a standalone installer is used.

Moving the game to another drive would make the game unplayable because of Windows registry. So even if OP moved the game files to E:, wouldn't that be pointless?

Possibly. It *might* not delete the game files if he has already moved them before hitting uninstall, I however would not take that chance since he already changed the settings too to that new location. Normally however if you uninstall without copying you lose your only copy, since as I said the installation copy is the only copy. Galaxy is beta, so I'd copy the folder first just to be on the safe side or at the very least move it to the desktop or somewhere out of Galaxy were it wasn't told to look for it. Again better safe that potentially deleting 25GB of game data.

EDIT: I'm actually thinking of uninstall via the client, if you uninstall via windows then yea op might be fine.

Thanks for your replies, ginsengsamurai's hint worked like a charm. I hadn't noticed the + up there. :) I just cut the entire folder from c and pasted it to e, then hit the + and told Galaxy where to look for the game. All good now. Cheers!

Glad that worked for you, good to know what will work without uninstalling the old registry stuff. Makes solving these problems much easier then.

GOG Galaxy = SSD killer. I'm not using this junk.

You are aware that you can set the install location as well as the temp location, right? And what do you mean SSD killer? If your SSD is a more recent one, it should be able to handle a few years of constant write/delete cycles, if you mean it fills up your SSD, then yes, it's a free space killer, SSD or not.

Edit: Here's the SSD Endurance Experiment, SSDs should be able to handle about a PB of writes before failure, and those were 2013 SSDs.

It still baffles me how impossible it seems for some people to just set a directory. I should be the one having problems, I set my GOG Galaxy to an external drive that can be disconnected! But I have none!

I am aware, I'm also aware that Galaxy downloads to my SSD first (temp folder) and then moves to the folder which I said it should install and/or download to. It's a completely retarded app. SSD endurance is fine and dandy when NEW, mine is 3 years old and I'd like to keep it for another 3 - Which isn't going to happen when stupid programs such as Galaxy pulls stunts such as these.
It baffles me how someone can miss that Galaxy downloads to a temp folder first, then moves the files. Guess where the temp folder is on 99.9% of systems? That's right, on the friggin' C drive.

As Darvond said, you can change the temp folder as well. Do ask if you need help locating said option. It is there.

Not to snark, but maybe the next version or so of Galaxy should include a 'HUGE RED ARROW' style tutorial.

This is going to change soon anyway, all games by default will install in the client directory. So setting to a second hard-drive during install should be enough. I imagine the temp directory will be there too.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_2/post1863

you just have to download gog galaxy on disk E, then it will install the games to disk E