Any reason I shouldnt move my AppData folder off my SSD C: drive?

[EdwardTeach]

I have an 80gb SSD as my boot drive. I noticed it was nearly full. The main problem is about 20gb of save game files! 13gb of this sit in my AppData folder (Total War saves), and cant be moved elsewhere.

Obviously I could delete some of my saves, but alternatively I was considering moving the AppData folder to another drive.

I was just wondering if there was any drawbacks to doing this?

I have never been too sure what I should be keeping on the SSD. I am not too sure what the AppData folder is for? If I move it off, will it affect much else other than Total War save loads?

 

[Makhaira]

I'd just symlink that save folder elsewhere to be honest, AppData gets accessed a lot by running programs so I'd leave it on your SSD.

 

[EdwardTeach]

I'd just symlink that save folder elsewhere to be honest, AppData gets accessed a lot by running programs so I'd leave it on your SSD.

Thanks for the reply, that does sound like a better option. Would you mind explaining how to do this?

 

[Makhaira]

Try this link:

http://www.heartlessgamer.com/2011/11/tip-how-to-move-steam-games-to-another.html

If you're still a bit confused, have a Google around "mklink" and your OS, should tell you everything you need to know .

 

[EdwardTeach]

I have given it a go but I am getting paremeter and syntax errors.

I am trying to move

C:\Users\Kieran\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly

to E:\Total war saves

I have opened a command prompt and navigated so that I am sitting in
C:\Users\Kieran\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly directory.

I type mklink /j "c:\users\Kieran\Appdata\Roaming\The Creative Assembly" E:\Total War saves\

and I am told there is a syntax error. Can you spot what I have got wrong?

 

[Memphis]

At a total guess, you're not enclosing the destination directory path in quotes.

 

[Django x2]

Yeah, will be that. Also, as fine as it is to choose different target folder name, I like to keep it exactly the same as the source, bar the drive letter of course

 

[EdwardTeach]

thanks I was following a guide which also omitted the quotes!

 

[marc2003]

if the example in the guide didn't have spaces in the folder path it would have worked. but they should at least mention you need to wrap stuff in quotes if there are spaces.

 

[EdwardTeach]

This link shell extension program seems to provide a handy way to avoid this without using the command prompt:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#download