fargo007 Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 Hi, Looking for the howto to split off my saved games folder to a different drive. Thanks pilots! Have fun. Don't suck. Kill bad guys. https://discord.gg/blacksharkden/
jeff_peters Posted January 31, 2018 Posted January 31, 2018 Right click on the Saved Games folder and select Properties. From there you select Location tab and there you can move the folder. It will ask you if you want to move all the files inside - click yes. Warning - when moving the folder, make sure to "create" the new folder there. If for example you choose the new path to be only something like D: (hard drive) it will dump all the files to D: and not create the Saved Games folder. (hope I'm making myself clear) 7 5
fargo007 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Posted January 31, 2018 Reputation points for you, that worked perfectly. Have fun. Don't suck. Kill bad guys. https://discord.gg/blacksharkden/
GunnyCook Posted December 24, 2018 Posted December 24, 2018 +1 Thanks Win10 64, GeForce GTX1080 Ti, Rift touch, i5- 2.90GHz(o/c), 16gb Corsair Vengance RAM, X-56 KA-50-3, AH-64D, A10c II, AV-8B, MI-8, Spitfire, Viggen, FC3, F-14, F-15c,FA-18, S/Carrier, CA, Nevada, Normandy 44, Channel, Persian gulf, Marianas, Syria, Sth Atlantic,
Habu_69 Posted December 31, 2018 Posted December 31, 2018 Will DCSW updates automatically "find" the new Saved Games location?
ED Team NineLine Posted December 31, 2018 ED Team Posted December 31, 2018 Will DCSW updates automatically "find" the new Saved Games location? Yes it should. Forum Rules • My YouTube • My Discord - NineLine#0440• **How to Report a Bug**
373vFS_Mav Posted March 17, 2020 Posted March 17, 2020 Right click on the Saved Games folder and select Properties. From there you select Location tab and there you can move the folder. It will ask you if you want to move all the files inside - click yes. Warning - when moving the folder, make sure to "create" the new folder there. If for example you choose the new path to be only something like D: (hard drive) it will dump all the files to D: and not create the Saved Games folder. (hope I'm making myself clear) I did that mistake, before I read your post. I lost my Saved Games folder at C:\Users\name\... and the game can't find its needed files. I feel the need...the need for speed. Highway...to the danger zone. Gonna take you right into the danger zone. MB ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer, CPU i5 4690, GPU MSI GTX 970 4GB, RAM Corsair Vengeance blue 24GB, SSD Samsung EVO 860 500GB, T16000M FCS Hotas, PS3 cam with Opentrack.
ED Team NineLine Posted March 17, 2020 ED Team Posted March 17, 2020 Best bet would be to restore default, and see if that fixes it, if not you might have to manually move them back from that new location to the default one. Forum Rules • My YouTube • My Discord - NineLine#0440• **How to Report a Bug**
fitness88 Posted March 18, 2020 Posted March 18, 2020 What jeff_peters said...you must manually create a saved games folder and allow the file/folder structure to load into it. If you screw up as I did the first time by not creating a saved games folder you need to change your shortcuts as well as an entry in the registry. If you hate the messy look of the relocation you need to take a backup of the saved games folder and do it manually. The Windows registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Eagle Dynamics/DCS World - Path value
Eldur Posted March 18, 2020 Posted March 18, 2020 Another way is: Go into your Saved Games folder and just move that "DCS.openbeta" or "DCS" (stable) folder to where you want it with a name to your liking, example (my case): E:\DCS World User (E is my first games drive). Then hit [Win], type cmd, right click the thing and open as admin. Type cd sa [tab] - this should autocomplete to 'cd "Saved Games"', hit Enter. Then type: mklink /j DCS.openbeta "E:\DCS World User" (for OB) or mklink /j DCS "E:\DCS World User" (for Stable) and hit Enter. This will create a junction that points to your new location, but anything that tries to find the data in it's original location will find them as usual as long as the junction is set up with the exact name and the target folder does exist with the files in it. Works perfectly well and I've been using this a lot due to limited space on my C drive in the past or to move things from a limited SSD over to a bigger HDD in case I needed to free up space there. 2
xXMustangXx Posted July 27, 2020 Posted July 27, 2020 I tried this and then SRS was having Issues working, any Ideas? Thanks
Utildai Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 On 12/31/2018 at 10:01 AM, NineLine said: Yes it should. So, Sir: What do you do when you install DCS to say the D drive and it places the contents of dcs.openbeta (which should go into the saved games folder of the C drive) directly onto the E Drive? I've re-installed twice and this is the issue both times. This has never happened before.
Storm_ctrl Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 I am interested in moving mine as well to another drive. If I move it to say the D drive and I wipe the C drive and have to reinstall DCS on the C drive. Would I then just redirect the saved folder in the C to my folder on the D drive? If so will it try to over write those files or will all my info be saved and used as it was before?
draconus Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 21 hours ago, Storm_ctrl said: I am interested in moving mine as well to another drive. If I move it to say the D drive and I wipe the C drive and have to reinstall DCS on the C drive. 1. Would I then just redirect the saved folder in the C to my folder on the D drive? 2. If so will it try to over write those files or will all my info be saved and used as it was before? 1. yes 2. the system will ask in the case of any conflict like same filenames during copying files Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Gunfreak Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I did this, it worked fine for DCS, but my dedicated server, doesn't work at all, it remembers that I've logged in, but I have no ability to move within folders to select a mission i7 13700k @5.2ghz, GTX 3090, 64Gig ram 4800mhz DDR5, M2 drive.
Andrew u.k. Posted Tuesday at 04:19 AM Posted Tuesday at 04:19 AM On 1/6/2025 at 1:01 PM, Gunfreak said: I did this, it worked fine for DCS, but my dedicated server, doesn't work at all, it remembers that I've logged in, but I have no ability to move within folders to select a mission Hi Gunfreak, Did you fix it? I have the same.
Gunfreak Posted Tuesday at 11:50 AM Posted Tuesday at 11:50 AM 7 hours ago, Andrew u.k. said: Hi Gunfreak, Did you fix it? I have the same. Only fix i had was to move the saved games folder back to C drive. Apparently you can movd the main DCS saved games folder to any drive yoi want. But dedicated server saved games folder must be in C drive for some reason i7 13700k @5.2ghz, GTX 3090, 64Gig ram 4800mhz DDR5, M2 drive.
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