I had to move my games to another drive "C"drive is over full

[woodsmn]

I had to move my games to the "E" drive cause "C" got over full....Now the mod manager won't open cause it thinks my games are all missing...how do I tell it where to look without being able to open it?? all I"d need to do is redirect it and all would be well...I like the mod package I have in there and if I have to delete and reinstall all my mods will get dumped..for skyrim...and I"d have to start all over again

[Skagens]

You'll most likely have to uninstall the manager and install it to where you moved your games.

[garthagain]

What you need is a program called " Link Shell Extension". It's super easy to use, and with it you can move anything ( that can be moved) from anywhere to anywhere, and it will still be found by whatever is looking for it. It does this by creating a 'Symbolic Link" in the place you moved the file from. The link itself has no size, and is only a glorified shortcut.

I moved all my games and most other programs to drive E some time ago and it works seamlessly, I've never had a problem.

NOTE; In some of the links given below the directions given make it sound more complicated than it really is. On the download page scroll down the directions page until you come to " SymbolicLink with

Vista and Windows7/8/10 ", this is the one I used, not the "Junction" or anything else.

How I did it;

1. Copy and paste the folder you moving to where you want it.( eg. "Bethesda Softworks/Fallout 3" from drive C to Programs (or whatever) drive E.

2. Remove "Bethesda Softworks" completely from drive C folder.

3. Right click on the new drive E "Bethesda Softworks" folder and select "Select Link Source".

4. Go back to where "Bethesda Softworks"

' was located in drive C, in this example; C:\Program Files (x86). Right click inside this folder and and go to "Drop As" ....left click "Symbolic Link". and you are done.

You should now have a link with a blue shortcut arrow and the same name as the moved folder. Try a test on a small folder with files before doing anything significant to make sure you are doing it right. As always do a backup in case something is not right.(Don't rename the folder, or you are in trouble).

Since you already moved the files, all you have to do is make the link.

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/294557-32-guide-move-software-games-drive-reinstalling

Edited May 26, 2017 by garthagain