fargo007 Posted January 31, 2018 Share 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_peters Posted January 31, 2018 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fargo007 Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Reputation points for you, that worked perfectly. Have fun. Don't suck. Kill bad guys. https://discord.gg/blacksharkden/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnyCook Posted December 24, 2018 Share 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habu_69 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Will DCSW updates automatically "find" the new Saved Games location? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team NineLine Posted December 31, 2018 ED Team Share 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** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
373vFS_Mav Posted March 17, 2020 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team NineLine Posted March 17, 2020 ED Team Share 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** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitness88 Posted March 18, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldur Posted March 18, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXMustangXx Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I tried this and then SRS was having Issues working, any Ideas? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utildai Posted November 9, 2021 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm_ctrl Posted March 10, 2022 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted March 11, 2022 Share 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 RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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