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Geek Culture / Folder redirect.. forwarding.. hack, tool, thingy?

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El Goorf
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Posted: 29th May 2008 16:24
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getting rather annoyed now at the amount of games and software I have installed that insist on saving saved game files, caches and settings to folders in My Documents. I've looked in registry for these programs to see if there's a way there to change the folder they read/write to, but none of them do.

I'm wondering if there's a tool which can be used to "forward" a program when it tries to access a folder, to a different directory, so i could move "my documents/random game/" to "my documents/games/random game" and then have this tool running in the background redirecting the program to this folder.

Does any one know of such a tool?

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soapyfish
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Posted: 29th May 2008 16:27
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I agree it is annoying. I would have thought that was the kind of setting that could be changed when first installing the game, choosing a save directory. Although that isn't very helpful once the game has been installed and may not even be correct.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 29th May 2008 16:30
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I've never seen the option in the installer even once...

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soapyfish
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Posted: 29th May 2008 16:32
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Fair enough, my mistake.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th May 2008 19:37
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I have noticed this too. Game developers can't seem to decide on a folder name either:
Quote: "My Games"

Quote: "My Saved Games"

Quote: "My Savegames"

Quote: "User Savegames"

Quote: "My Game Saves"



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Mr X
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Posted: 29th May 2008 20:16
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An application like that would be very nice.

Otherwise I would suggest to game developers to either decide a standard location for saving games, or saving in the game folder itself.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 29th May 2008 21:50
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I've just come across something called "symlinks" which is apparently common in linux, though it is also a feature of windows except it's undocumented officially. It allows you to create an instance or mirror of a folder in another location, almost like a copy of the folder except it reads from the same space on the HDD instead of physically copying it.

So what i'll try out when i'm done reading, is instance the folders in a "my games" folder or w/e, and then hide the original folders, giving the illusion of the same effect.

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5Louiz
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Posted: 30th May 2008 03:29 Edited at: 30th May 2008 03:29
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Does not a shortcut attend you? The problem is that the files are not easily accessible, if I did understand correctly. I dislike these unpredictable savings too, and I find the "My documents" folder inadequate. But I think that a shortcut is enough when I do not have control over where things are being saved to.

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