2013-01-13 11:48 PM
My C Drive is a Solid State Drive and I would really like to make more room. Is there a way to move the Bioware folder to another drive without messing everything up? Any help would be appreciated
Solved! Go to Solution.
2013-01-14 09:23 AM - last edited October 2015
Edit 2015/10/04: There have been some who have had problems with the change in the configuration file as explained here in the original. However, I would recommend you to try it first since it keeps the changes to the Dragon Age Origins program. Nevertheless, try the next solution of making a symbolic link instead (from my own reply on page 2):
@lonori wrote:
I'm really sad to here that it doesn't seem to be working for people. Furthermore, I can't come up with any other configuration setting to change. However, there's always the solution that works outside Dragon Age Origins (on a operative system level). The idea is to create a symbolic link between the current folder path to where you want the stuff to be stored. This will make it look like there is a folder in My Documents that is called Bioware while in reality it only links to another folder stored somewhere else (kind of like the famous shortcuts). In windows you do it by doing the following:
- Move your Bioware folder to its new location.
- Open a Command line prompt (press windows button + r on the keyboard, the enter cmd in the run prompt and press enter).
- Make sure that there is no folder called "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" before you do the next step (since it, potentially, could overwrite it. Not used to terminal in Windows but it definitely has the power to do so).
- Type in: mklink /J "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" "<new location of the folder, e.g: D:\SaveGames\Bioware>" (the "/J" tells the linker that it's going to be a dictionary junction, the first string is the location that you want to make a link from and the last string is the target of the link).
- Done!
In the case that you only want to move a subpart of the Bioware folder you'll just have to change the first string (and maybe you would want to change the second string to point to a more nicely named folder). Furthermore, on mac (and linux for that matter) the command would be: ln -s source_file target_file.
Original message:
You could move the file but you would have to change the config file so that it reads (and writes hopefully) from the new folder.
Haven't worked with .xml and I haven't tried this on my own so I can't guarantee that it will work, but I think it will. Just make backups before you try.
Good luck and don't be afraid to ask if there's anything else you want to ask about,
Lonori
2013-01-14 09:23 AM - last edited October 2015
Edit 2015/10/04: There have been some who have had problems with the change in the configuration file as explained here in the original. However, I would recommend you to try it first since it keeps the changes to the Dragon Age Origins program. Nevertheless, try the next solution of making a symbolic link instead (from my own reply on page 2):
@lonori wrote:
I'm really sad to here that it doesn't seem to be working for people. Furthermore, I can't come up with any other configuration setting to change. However, there's always the solution that works outside Dragon Age Origins (on a operative system level). The idea is to create a symbolic link between the current folder path to where you want the stuff to be stored. This will make it look like there is a folder in My Documents that is called Bioware while in reality it only links to another folder stored somewhere else (kind of like the famous shortcuts). In windows you do it by doing the following:
- Move your Bioware folder to its new location.
- Open a Command line prompt (press windows button + r on the keyboard, the enter cmd in the run prompt and press enter).
- Make sure that there is no folder called "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" before you do the next step (since it, potentially, could overwrite it. Not used to terminal in Windows but it definitely has the power to do so).
- Type in: mklink /J "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" "<new location of the folder, e.g: D:\SaveGames\Bioware>" (the "/J" tells the linker that it's going to be a dictionary junction, the first string is the location that you want to make a link from and the last string is the target of the link).
- Done!
In the case that you only want to move a subpart of the Bioware folder you'll just have to change the first string (and maybe you would want to change the second string to point to a more nicely named folder). Furthermore, on mac (and linux for that matter) the command would be: ln -s source_file target_file.
Original message:
You could move the file but you would have to change the config file so that it reads (and writes hopefully) from the new folder.
Haven't worked with .xml and I haven't tried this on my own so I can't guarantee that it will work, but I think it will. Just make backups before you try.
Good luck and don't be afraid to ask if there's anything else you want to ask about,
Lonori
April 2015
Hello,
Can you Help me? I have tried to change my saving location from C: (SSD) to A: (HDD), however every time I save in the game, a new BioWare Folder is still saved at C: Documents. The new directoiry address, which I am trying to move to is A:\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect
April 2015
I had to install the game to find the configuration files for ME1 but it seams like it's just like in Dragon Age. Since my previous answer was marked as a success I'll presume that BioWare uses this as their only configuration file. Anyhow, on to the steps you have to take:
Just give me a shout if it doesn't work and I'll look into if I can find some more configurations when I get the time.
September 2015
I try that's solutions but, it can't, i try open the dao after edit DAOriginsConfig.xml, and my savesdata not loaded, like a new installation the DAO, please tell me what to do, sorry my english so bad!
September 2015
whether its DAOriginsLauncher.xml also edited?
September 2015
What did you replace the
<string name="USERDATA_DIR">${CSIDL_PERSONAL}\BioWare\Dragon Age</string>
with?
September 2015
like that right? and I've changed all such clue
September 2015
I personally just moved the entire Documents folder to my hard drive. I did the same with Downloads, Music, etc. because they really don't need to be on an SSD.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-dri...
September 2015
I can't find anything else in the config file that specifies the location to your document folder so if it doesn't work with changing the string in the xml-file and having it pointing to "D:\Saves\BioWare\Dragon Age" when:
If those are correct (to the character) and it doesn't work for you, I'm afraid I can't come up with anything else in that config file. Of course, there might be something else that I've missed in another config file which I haven't looked at. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to look for it at the moment. However, the answer that Fred gave above works just as fine since it's changing the systems personal directory (CSIDL_PERSONAL and CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS) which the original xml-file is using. However, that will also change the pointers for every other well written program (that is, hopefully, the majority that uses those system references).