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Change Save Game Path - 1/4/2012 4:56:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is it possible to change the default path for save games? I have two different machines that I play WITPAE on, and I am constantly copying the SAVE folder to a USB stick, and then going home and copying it back to the HD, then back to the stick, etc. I would like to change the save game path to point directly to the USB stick. I did a search but did not come up with anything. Thanks.

Mike
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RE: Change Save Game Path - 1/4/2012 11:43:57 PM   
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Is it possible to change the default path for save games? I have two different machines that I play WITPAE on, and I am constantly copying the SAVE folder to a USB stick, and then going home and copying it back to the HD, then back to the stick, etc. I would like to change the save game path to point directly to the USB stick. I did a search but did not come up with anything. Thanks.

Mike

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Solution: Change Save Game Path - 1/5/2012 5:46:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you are using Win7 or Vista the 'mklink.exe' command might be able to do the trick. Try at your own risk.
Make a save of your SAVE-Folder
delete the SAVE-Folder
open a command prompt (cmd.exe)
in the command prompt:
change to your witpae-folder
enter the following command: mklink /J SAVE e:\save
    (where e:\save is the folder on your USB-stick

The command creates a junction named SAVE. Everything written to this junction is redirected to the real folder.

For Win XP junction.exe might do the trick (Download page)


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RE: Solution: Change Save Game Path - 1/5/2012 6:22:37 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Theages

If you are using Win7 or Vista the 'mklink.exe' command might be able to do the trick. Try at your own risk.
Make a save of your SAVE-Folder
delete the SAVE-Folder
open a command prompt (cmd.exe)
in the command prompt:
change to your witpae-folder
enter the following command: mklink /J SAVE e:\save
    (where e:\save is the folder on your USB-stick

The command creates a junction named SAVE. Everything written to this junction is redirected to the real folder.

For Win XP junction.exe might do the trick (Download page)



Yep... this should work (I use this all the time for years now for various tasks on WinXP, Vista and Win7)...


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RE: Solution: Change Save Game Path - 1/5/2012 9:42:28 PM   
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OMG... Windows has finally discovered the advantages of symbolic links for the masses (ie not in a developer Resource Kit).

This was the feature I missed most from AmigaDOS (the Assign command) ~30 years ago. (Unix/Linux has always had it too).

I used to write some interesting scripts such as uploading entire programs to a RAM drive, reassigning (symbolic linking) all the system functions so they ran from RAM and copying all the saved data back to disk at the end of session. Got a tenfold performance increase for no additional hardware. It didn't hurt the Amiga supported huge (for the time) amounts of RAM though since the OS fitted on a floppy you didn't need much.

Thanks for pointing out that XP utility. I can think of a few uses for it already...



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RE: Solution: Change Save Game Path - 1/6/2012 3:25:53 PM   
Rant6

 

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Status: offline 		Great. Will give it a try. Thanks.

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