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Migrating install directory from C:\

By tensai.industries

If you have C:\ space issues, or want to keep big installs off of your nice SSD, here's how to symb link

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I think symlink is a pretty known solution but since not everyone is tech savy I decided to write a small tutorial.

Navigate to:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\drecom

Cut the drecom folder and paste it on another drive, I moved it to F:\Games\Wizardry

The full path looks like this F:\Games\Wizardry\drecom

Launch cmd, navigate to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow

Using the cd (change directory) command type:

cd AppData\LocalLow

If you aren't by default in your user section, you can

cd C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow

Type this command (please ensure the drive and path are what YOU setup, not me lol)

mklink /j drecom F:\Games\Wizardry\drecom

You'll get an error saying it exists if you haven't moved (cut/paste) the folder to the new location

If it succeeds, you'll see a shortcut-looking folder link in AppData\LocalLow for drecom

This is the symbolic link. Any data sent there actually ends up in your alternate location specified in the command line

Hope this helps!!

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IchigoMait 21 Jun @ 11:31am

This is useful for
windows drive:\Users\username\AppData\Local\NVIDIA
It's like 17.5GB at the moment, has been also around 20GB. All files 2 months old.

tensai.industries [author] 23 May @ 8:22pm

Yeah it seems they fixed the C drive issue a month or so ago

幻塔高手 2 May @ 4:12am

since the huge chunks of gamedata were placed in steamapps now, it's not that necessary to move it, I checked the drecom folder and it is less than 300M so far.

Yuen 31 Mar @ 2:59pm

I didn't even know this was a problem until now. Because I designated my game to install it in an SSD for my games and apparently it wasn't there. I saw this and noticed the data was in my C drive. So instead what I did was go to the game's properties and click on "Move install folder" under the Installed Data category and move the data to another drive, then I moved it back the game drive and the data was actually in the SSD this time and moved away from the C drive.

Merc 19 Mar @ 9:06pm

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Unity\drecom_WizardryVariantsDaphne also will take few gb off your C drive so also need to be added

IchigoMait 19 Mar @ 2:59pm

You can also use the powershell way.

Cut the original location content.
Paste it to where you want it to be.
Open powershell from the original folder location with hold shift and right click the folder to open it in powershell.
The original location "windows drive:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow"

Put into powershell:
New-Item -Path Unity -ItemType Junction -Value "F:\Games\Unity"

New-Item -Path drecom -ItemType Junction -Value "F:\Games\drecom"

-path is original folder name, -value is new folder location where you pasted the stuff from appdata/locallow

tensai.industries [author] 19 Mar @ 2:42pm

I swear the environment variable keeps getting replaced by the text editor.. %username% will sub in whatever your PC profile name is

tensai.industries [author] 16 Mar @ 1:10pm

You can also preemptively setup this link in AppData so the install just ends up on your alternate drive & folder, if you have issues with initial C:\ space ~

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