rayrayblues Posted December 25, 2020 Posted December 25, 2020 I have my games on a separate drive and wanted to move my Saved Games folder to that drive. I followed the instructions at the bottom of this post. DCS install drive - New User Briefing Room - ED Forums (eagle.ru) The folder did not go where I sent it. It is gone from my C drive and is not in my games drive. I can't find it and have lost all of my settings and scripts. Please help. I know that it is a windows app. Can it be restored or found? I tried search but no luck. SLAVA UKRAINI MoBo - ASUS 990FX R2 Sabertooth, CPU - AMD FX 9590 @4.7Gb. No OC RAM - GSkill RipJaws DDR3 32 Gb @2133 MHZ, GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6Gb DDR5 OC'd, Core 180MHz, Memory 800MHz Game drive - Samsung 980 M.2 EVO 1Tb SSD, OS Drive - 860 EVO 500Gb SATA SSD, Win10 Pro 22H2 Controls - Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X, Monitor - LG 32" 1920 X 1080, PSU - Prestige ATX-PR800W PSU
ex81 Posted December 25, 2020 Posted December 25, 2020 If you not deleted it, start a search on the whole machine. It should be somewhere hidden. Open your Desktop and search. What goes up, must come down ! Intel Core i7-8700, 32 GB-RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5, 1TB HDD, 1000 GB 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD, Windows 10/64, A10-C, Rhino X55, Persian Golf, F/A-18 Hornet
rayrayblues Posted December 25, 2020 Author Posted December 25, 2020 I tried that, no luck. I'll try again. SLAVA UKRAINI MoBo - ASUS 990FX R2 Sabertooth, CPU - AMD FX 9590 @4.7Gb. No OC RAM - GSkill RipJaws DDR3 32 Gb @2133 MHZ, GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6Gb DDR5 OC'd, Core 180MHz, Memory 800MHz Game drive - Samsung 980 M.2 EVO 1Tb SSD, OS Drive - 860 EVO 500Gb SATA SSD, Win10 Pro 22H2 Controls - Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X, Monitor - LG 32" 1920 X 1080, PSU - Prestige ATX-PR800W PSU
rob10 Posted December 25, 2020 Posted December 25, 2020 Worth checking your Windows "Recyle bin" (trash) in case it accidentally got deleted instead of moved.
rayrayblues Posted December 25, 2020 Author Posted December 25, 2020 Not in the trash. I fixed it though. I always do daily backups of my whole system. Since it is a windows file/app, I was able to restore the OS and got it back. SLAVA UKRAINI MoBo - ASUS 990FX R2 Sabertooth, CPU - AMD FX 9590 @4.7Gb. No OC RAM - GSkill RipJaws DDR3 32 Gb @2133 MHZ, GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6Gb DDR5 OC'd, Core 180MHz, Memory 800MHz Game drive - Samsung 980 M.2 EVO 1Tb SSD, OS Drive - 860 EVO 500Gb SATA SSD, Win10 Pro 22H2 Controls - Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X, Monitor - LG 32" 1920 X 1080, PSU - Prestige ATX-PR800W PSU
ShaunX Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Just read this so apologies for the late reply. I think I can guess what happened. When you use the "Location" tab in the Saved Games properties to change the folder's location, you MUST firstly manually create a folder named "Saved Games" on the destination drive, and select that as the destination folder in the location tab. If you don't do that, and just attempt to relocate it to, say D:\, it will just move all files and subdirectories (and indeed the important registry entry) to be directly under D:\, i.e. NOT in a Saved Games folder. If you then search for the Saved Games folder on the destination drive, it won't find one by that name as you didn't create it first. RYZEN 5900X | 32GB | ASUS Strix RTX3090 | 500GB NVMe OS 1000GB NVMe DCS | Warthog HOTAS | HP Reverb G2 | VA & ViacomPRO My DCS Apps: Radio KAOS for DCS KB Quick - Quick and Easy Kneeboards
Rudel_chw Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 6 minutes ago, shaun57 said: Just read this so apologies for the late reply. I think I can guess what happened. When you use the "Location" tab in the Saved Games properties to change the folder's location, you MUST firstly manually create a folder named "Saved Games" on the destination drive, and select that as the destination folder in the location tab. The "location" tab has two buttons, the one to use is the "move" button ... I think that you used the other button "Find Target" instead, and yes, that button requires the folder to already exits. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
stag1978 Posted March 30, 2021 Posted March 30, 2021 Hi, I had a very bad day after a similar experience. I had used the 'Location' tab to move the Saved Games folder to a new drive. I did not specify a folder, so it dumped everything to the new drive root folder... of course that is a mess, cannot be accepted. I tried to copy and paste the folders and made an even bigger mess, as DCS could not find my options, settings, etc. any more. After a few hours of searching and trial and error I have found a solution. You have to open File Explorer (Win+E) and write this to the path window: shell:UsersFilesFolders. You will see this: If you click to the Saved Games you will find yourself in the folder that you specified earlier. (If the Saved Games is not there, use the command shell:SavedGames command, it will show you where the files and folders are at the moment that is considered as 'in the Saved Games folder'.) If you did not specify any destination folder, than what you can do is to manually create a Saved Games folder here and right click onto the icon. Click Location and hit Restore default. It should tell Windows that the Saved Games folder is again in the original place and move the current files back to this location. However for me it did not work, so I had to move the files manually from the incorrect location to this Saved Games folder. Started DCS, everything worked again. After this, I created a new Saved Games folder to my other drive, and used the Location again to move the files to the new folder. Now it worked as advertised. If this does not work check out the below link, maybe the .bat files will work for you. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23504-restore-default-location-personal-folders-windows-10-a.html The most important lesson: the Location tab of the Saved Games folder moves the content of the folder, not the folder itself, so you have to create a new folder and use that location as a target. 1
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