Origin headache. There must be an easy fix, surely?!

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just dloaded 200gig of games on origin, onto an external drive. On the same same drive went 300gig of steam games, roughly.

For reasons I'll not bore you with ithen had to format my C drive. Unpuggled the external drive, then did the reinstall. Steam had no problems offering me a link to my games. Originon the over hand has no such easy use.

How do I make a shortcut to my external drive for origin? Help help help!:eek:
 
It's just a setting to point to the download folder isn't it? I can't remember exactly where it is, I'm on my Mac and not going to fire my PC up to check :p

Try:

Origin > Application Settings > Advanced. Under “Downloaded Games”, click the “Change” button and direct it to the folder on your new hard drive.
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What I've done in the past is set the folder as above then start the download so the folder structure is created and let it run for a minute or so. Exit Origin completely, open origin again and see if the magic happens?
 
Funny. Someone else wrote something similar to that but I couldn't quick follow it. At the riskofbeing a pain I theass,could u explain in more detail
 
This is how I've always backed up and replaced Origin games, I don't know if there is a better way, but at least it works. You set the drive you want in options, then start the game downloading. Once it's started, pause the download and exit Origin completely. Then copy your backup game folder to the location you just started a download at and overwrite everything. Start up Origin again and unpause the download, it will then check its progress, find all the files to be there and complete without downloading anything extra.
 
Start origin download, Let it do about 2%, Pause the download, Exit Origin, Copy files across & then open Origin again & it should pick up the files.

Basically what benjii said.
 
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