External Hard Drive & Save Files

claptrap22 · 11-02-2010, 01:22 PM

Hello to all:

So I'm shifting my games to run off of an external harddrive and this has been successful with one small exception. Some games, like Titan Quest (and Overlord) will install to the external drive, and run from that drive, but place my game saves in my documents folder (I am using Windows 7). I of course can simply move that file to my hard drive and then move it to that folder on another computer if I play elsewhere (I own 2 macs [on whihc I have installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp] in 2 locations - the idea is to simply walk around with a hard drive and let that be that - works pretty well).

The question is whether there's a way to rig the game so as to have it AUTOMATICALLY place the save file in the general location where the game app file is?

Many thanks in advance.

A Guy · 11-02-2010, 01:54 PM

I've got 2 things you can try. You can set the My Documents location to be on the external drive so Windows will use that drive by default. Or I think in Windows Vista and later, you can create a special folder that links to another folder. It's some type of command you enter into the command prompt. I would link the "My Documents\My Games" folder to somewhere on the external drive in both systems.

If neither of those work, try to find where the game stores its settings to change the default save location directly. I looked around the registry and in the game files, but I didn't find anything useful.

claptrap22 · 11-03-2010, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by A Guy

I've got 2 things you can try. You can set the My Documents location to be on the external drive so Windows will use that drive by default. Or I think in Windows Vista and later, you can create a special folder that links to another folder. It's some type of command you enter into the command prompt. I would link the "My Documents\My Games" folder to somewhere on the external drive in both systems.

If neither of those work, try to find where the game stores its settings to change the default save location directly. I looked around the registry and in the game files, but I didn't find anything useful.

Redirecting the location of the My Documents Folder seems to have done the trick. Thanks.

11-02-2010, 01:22 PM	#1
claptrap22 Join Date: May 2010 Reputation: 3 Posts: 37	External Hard Drive & Save Files Hello to all: So I'm shifting my games to run off of an external harddrive and this has been successful with one small exception. Some games, like Titan Quest (and Overlord) will install to the external drive, and run from that drive, but place my game saves in my documents folder (I am using Windows 7). I of course can simply move that file to my hard drive and then move it to that folder on another computer if I play elsewhere (I own 2 macs [on whihc I have installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp] in 2 locations - the idea is to simply walk around with a hard drive and let that be that - works pretty well). The question is whether there's a way to rig the game so as to have it AUTOMATICALLY place the save file in the general location where the game app file is? Many thanks in advance.

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11-02-2010, 01:54 PM	#2
A Guy Join Date: Dec 2008 Reputation: 700 Posts: 755	I've got 2 things you can try. You can set the My Documents location to be on the external drive so Windows will use that drive by default. Or I think in Windows Vista and later, you can create a special folder that links to another folder. It's some type of command you enter into the command prompt. I would link the "My Documents\My Games" folder to somewhere on the external drive in both systems. If neither of those work, try to find where the game stores its settings to change the default save location directly. I looked around the registry and in the game files, but I didn't find anything useful.