Game files - change storage directory
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Hya folks!
When I install Path of Exile a number of configuration files are stored in the My Documents folder (regardless of where I put the Installation directory). This poses a problem because we map our My Documents folder to a file share, which is not always online. Does anyone know how I can change that config file location? Last bumped on Sep 10, 2016, 4:56:10 PM
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" PoE shouldn't use a completely static path. It probably uses "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Games\Path of Exile" to get there. So if you've remapped My Documents, that may be a problem. Because Windows doesn't have an environment variable for the My Documents and My Games folder. Yet, it depends on how you remapped My Documents. Did you open up the properties of "My Documents" folder and change it under the "Location" tab, or did you do make a Symbolic Link with the mklink command (explanation here)? If you did the former, you can always make a Symbolic link on top of that. For example: mklink /d "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Games\Path of Exile" D:\MyMappedLocation A full guide to mklink: http://ss64.com/nt/mklink.html As for changing that, it's not in the ini config file. I think it's in the registry. You can edit the registry value that points to it (just use regedit). If I'm mistaken and it's not in the registry, then it may be hard-coded into the client and thus the Symbolic Link might be your only solution. ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░ cipher_nemo ░░░░░░░░░░░░░▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Last edited by cipher_nemo#6436 on Sep 7, 2016, 3:55:30 PM
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I set up a group policy, so the remapping is done for all users. When I have some time I'm going to try manually changing it on a user account with admin privileges to see if the group policy re-applies itself or if the change sticks.
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