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Posted January 28, 2021
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rtcvb32: and viola! Works!
Many viola players would be jealous of your ease of achieving catharsis.
Posted April 01, 2022
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introAether: ...
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Lexor: Easiest thing: move the game folder to another drive then create a link in the place it was.

Use mklink command for that.

Example:

- You have game in C:\Files\Witcher directory and want to move it to drive D: to Games directory.

- Move whole Witcher directory to Games directory then type

mklink /d "C:\Files\Witcher" "D:\Games\Witcher"

- This command will create fake Witcher "directory" in C:\Files and in reality when you enter it you will go to drive D:

- When Windows wants to run/load game data from this directory it will be also redirected to your drive D: :)

You can always use this method for any other data as well.
Just wanted to say thank you. This worked great for me, even with twenty mods installed :)
Posted April 01, 2022
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introAether: Is this possible? Or will I have to reinstall the game from scratch?
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PookaMustard: Try renaming the game folder and running the game. If it works, feel free to move the game to another drive. If not, you will have to reinstall it. You should be fine if you're not using Galaxy, but in case you do, make it import the game from the new path.
This far more comes down to if there's any registry entries that look at the registry to figure out where the files are at. A lot of games however are based on the current working directory, which makes them easy to move.

Though Skyrim i've noticed doesn't like moving directories as it will still point the launcher to the original folder (to change mods) but run correctly in another one...
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