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What if some software/registry entry is still pointing to C:\Users\Your Name\AppData..?!
Better use a junction point instead of moving
What if some software/registry entry is still pointing to C:\Users\Your Name\AppData..?!
Better use a junction point instead of moving
Well I didn't mean "move", but use the properties, location, and go via that path, or via shell:UsersFilesFolder to which WHS sort of disagreed.
And my entire post revolves around the issue you mentioned right here: I know for a fact that my appdata will grow to over 20gb in under a year. That is caused exactly by that pesky "the creative assembly" folder which contains the game "empire total war" and will shortly contain also "rome 2, total war". These are humongous games.
While the junction trick didn't work as I mentioned to you last night, I thought of moving the roaming folder. However, if you suggest I don't move it, I guess I will have to live with that fact? Unless I contact Bill Gates him self to show me a super trick!!!!
The shortcut on C (actually not a shortcut but a junction) redirects everything to V. Just what you want.
I mean EVERYTHING! So if you look in C:\users\xyz\appdata\roaming\gamename ... you actually see files from V.
You delete the junction.... game does of course recreate it. It's just like running for first time
Sorry to keep being a pest...I believe you mean to say that the re-junctioned folder in V drive will contain all the saves etc, and the shortcut in C will be a copy of that. If that is the case, then once the "main" folder that is in V gets larger and larger in time, then the shortcut will too. And if that is the case, will the shortcut also grow in size just as a "mirror" of the main folder in V?
So, if in a year, the folder in V grows to 10gb, will the shortcut in C also grow to 10gb?
I feel like a noob
Ok. It is clear then. I was under the impression it is a shortcut because it created a folder (with a shortcut sign) on it on my C drive. But since it is what you say it is (a junction), then I am 100% clear about it now. Great to know and great to have knowledgeable people like you around! I will make the junction again and get on with this :)
I have never worked with the junction points. But if Kaktussoft thinks that this is a safe approach, you can try that too.
I know though that moving a folder with the Location tab works. I have done that a few times. Why don't you just try it as I explained. Take an image before you do it. Then you can always restore the previous state. Or you can just move Roaming back to Appdata.