I did put the game to my D drive ( download and installed again)
I did copy my savedata to my portable hardisk so i can keep playing where i did stop
the problem is I don't know where to copy it back ? I did try some folders in D but it keep starting from new game
any help ?

the game creates a folder for the savegames in "Documents" on your C-Drive by default. To my knowlegde it can only find your savedata there.

that's how the path looks on windows 10 by default:
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\The Witcher 3\gamesaves

i did do a little reseach and i did find this one the forum

[i]My computer has two drives on it - 32gb SSD and a 1tb normal HDD. I only use the SSD for my operating system, everything else goes in to the D drive. Unfortunately, The Witcher 2 automatically places its save games into My Documents on the C drive, and it's really eating up space fast. I don't see an option to change the default save folder, is this possible?
You can create a symbolic link on NTFS filesystem

Copy the "Witcher 2" directory from "C:\Users\username\Documents" to D drive
Delete "Witcher 2" directory from "C:\Users\username\Documents"
Open command prompt and cd to "C:\Users\username\Documents"
type this command:
mklink /D "Witcher 2" "D:\Witcher 2"[/i]

I did try this and I'm getting a error that says "you do not have sufficient privilege to peform this operation"

what does that mean ? and how can I change that ?

You need to run the command prompt as administrator (right click / Run as Administrator).

yes indeed it did work but when i delete it from my C documents I don't have a saved game anymore
even I did put my saved files in D

Did you type in the command precisely? Please repost here exactly what you typed into the command prompt.

its above my second post

Copy the "Witcher 2" directory from "C:\Users\username\Documents" to D drive
Delete "Witcher 2" directory from "C:\Users\username\Documents"
Open command prompt and cd to "C:\Users\username\Documents"
type this command:
mklink /D "Witcher 2" "D:\Witcher 2"[/i]

I didn't ask for what you copied from, I asked you to type out exactly what you typed. It is a common error to mis-type or misunderstand instructions. The fact that there is a spurious italic code ([/i]) at the end of those instructions is what prompted me to ask, not to mention that the instructions make the symlink point to D\Witcher 2, but if you moved your documents to a different folder then it won't work.

that is what i did type nothing more and the ([/i]) is nothing you should worry about its something i did type here wrong

What you just said makes no sense (not to worry but you typed it wrong!?) You're being evasive. Is that deliberate or down to language barrier? I still don't know where you moved your documents to, for example.

You might have to delete the previous link you created.

Ooops, I've read the thread from the beginning again. Are you doing this for "Witcher 2" or "Witcher 3"?

Like in user elvenast wrote,


"that's how the path looks on windows 10 by default:
C:\Users\[username]\Documents\The Witcher 3\gamesaves"

W3 game engine will look for the folder, \The Witcher 3 folder directory, for game settings, and, subfolder "gamesaves", for saved games and game progress.

So, the confusion here now lies in wether you're linking the "gamesaves" or "The Witcher 3" folder in which "gamsaves" folder is contained.

The walk through you copied and pasted, instructed you copy Witcher 2 folder to :D before deleting from :C. Assuming, only the gamsaves you wanted on :D, then, the mlink syntax we're talking about was not accurate.

But it is hard to figure out what is going on if we don't know exactly what the syntax you used for mlink.