How to move saved games folder to different drive?

[fargo007]

Hi,

 

Looking for the howto to split off my saved games folder to a different drive.

 

Thanks pilots!

[jeff_peters]

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)

[fargo007]

Reputation points for you, that worked perfectly.

[GunnyCook]

+1

Thanks

[Habu_69]

Will DCSW updates automatically "find" the new Saved Games location?

[NineLine]

Will DCSW updates automatically "find" the new Saved Games location?

 

Yes it should.

[373vFS_Mav]

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.

[NineLine]

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.

[fitness88]

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]

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.

[xXMustangXx]

I tried this and then SRS was having Issues working, any Ideas?

 

Thanks

[Utildai]

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]

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]

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

[Gunfreak]

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

[Andrew u.k.]

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]

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 

[Andrew u.k.]

Thanks for the reply 

[MAXsenna]

On 4/22/2025 at 1:50 PM, Gunfreak said:

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 

Did you try to move the whole Saved Games folder with the wizard, and remember to create a Saved Games folder on your new drive first? Or did did you just drag and drop it? Because DCS doesn't care where it is, because it finds Saved Games through the registry. 

[Gunfreak]

43 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Did you try to move the whole Saved Games folder with the wizard, and remember to create a Saved Games folder on your new drive first? Or did did you just drag and drop it? Because DCS doesn't care where it is, because it finds Saved Games through the registry. 

DCS found it just fine

DCS dedicated server did not.

I made a saved games folder on the new drive. And transferred. 

Dedicated server didn't work. 

Uninstalled the dedicated server and installed it again. Still didn't work. Had to move it back to C drive. And it worked perfectly.

So can move dcs saved games folder. 

Can not move the dedicated server saved games folder.

[MAXsenna]

DCS found it just fine
DCS dedicated server did not.
I made a saved games folder on the new drive. And transferred. 
Dedicated server didn't work. 
Uninstalled the dedicated server and installed it again. Still didn't work. Had to move it back to C drive. And it worked perfectly.
So can move dcs saved games folder. 
Can not move the dedicated server saved games folder.

Yeah, I saw that. But just wanted to clarify. You should report it as a special bug, because it doesn't make sense for me. How can the server know what your username is, unless it uses the registry? And, the registry will point to Saved Games no matter what. Unless there's a hardlink somewhere. You do not run the server as administrator by any chance?

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[Laxxor]

i woudl recommend the alternate suggestion made near the start of

mkLink /D

to redirect the foldername in saved games to any folder of your choice - it acts an an invisible (to the game) redirect