I have a solid state drive and a regular disk drive on my computer.
Yes, thank you, I know I'm awesome.
Now for speed purposes, Windows is loaded onto my SSD, and very little else. All of my 'save' functions have been moved over to my rather expansive HDD, such as the path to which downloaded and torrented files are saved. All non-essential functions are run off of my HDD, so that the tiny SSD doesn't A) fill up too fast, or B) degrade.
All of them...
...except for minecraft.
Minecraft, which is a highly read/write intensive application. As many of you well know, constant writing and rewriting are not good for an SSDs health.
Now, I would GLADLY create a special directory just for minecraft on my HDD - even going as far as replicating the entire appdata filepath, just with F:\ instead of C:\, but Minecraft INSISTS on placing itself on the disk occupied by my OS.
Here's my suggestion - when running Minecraft.exe, if a filepath to minecraft.jar is not yet established on that system, then let the user INPUT the desired filepath for the installation, instead of making it mandatory in one spot. My C drive is probably going to die in less than a year because of minecraft, and I simply can't bring myself to just not play.
I've seen workarounds that deal with batch files, and I have written many of them myself, but I don't understand exactly how the ones to reroute minecraft work and I never hardcode something into an application unless I know the exact mechanism behind it.
Honestly, would it really be THAT much trouble to accept input for an installation directory like nearly every other program made in the past 10 years?
I have a solid state drive and a regular disk drive on my computer.
Yes, thank you, I know I'm awesome.
Now for speed purposes, Windows is loaded onto my SSD, and very little else. All of my 'save' functions have been moved over to my rather expansive HDD, such as the path to which downloaded and torrented files are saved. All non-essential functions are run off of my HDD, so that the tiny SSD doesn't A) fill up too fast, or B) degrade.
All of them...
...except for minecraft.
Minecraft, which is a highly read/write intensive application. As many of you well know, constant writing and rewriting are not good for an SSDs health.
Now, I would GLADLY create a special directory just for minecraft on my HDD - even going as far as replicating the entire appdata filepath, just with F:\ instead of C:\, but Minecraft INSISTS on placing itself on the disk occupied by my OS.
Here's my suggestion - when running Minecraft.exe, if a filepath to minecraft.jar is not yet established on that system, then let the user INPUT the desired filepath for the installation, instead of making it mandatory in one spot. My C drive is probably going to die in less than a year because of minecraft, and I simply can't bring myself to just not play.
I've seen workarounds that deal with batch files, and I have written many of them myself, but I don't understand exactly how they work and I never hardcode something into an application unless I know the exact mechanism behind it.
Honestly, would it really be THAT much trouble to accept input for an installation directory like nearly every other program made in the past 10 years?
Come on mojang, save my drive.
I agree with you, SSDs are excelent for installing an OS onto, but when stuff like this happens it makes you wonder why you'd bother getting an expencive drive only to see it chewed up by a game. a save location feature would be a nice addition. I support this idea.
Thanks for the links guys - I'd actually seen that already but Nova's explanation makes me a little less hesitant about trying it.
The point of this thread, however, is that this sort of thing should be implemented into the BASE. GAME.
What, I can completely re-skin the entire game just by dragging and dropping one archive folder, but I can't use a feature that every current generation program and their grandfathers already have?
Yes, thank you, I know I'm awesome.
Now for speed purposes, Windows is loaded onto my SSD, and very little else. All of my 'save' functions have been moved over to my rather expansive HDD, such as the path to which downloaded and torrented files are saved. All non-essential functions are run off of my HDD, so that the tiny SSD doesn't A) fill up too fast, or B) degrade.
All of them...
...except for minecraft.
Minecraft, which is a highly read/write intensive application. As many of you well know, constant writing and rewriting are not good for an SSDs health.
Now, I would GLADLY create a special directory just for minecraft on my HDD - even going as far as replicating the entire appdata filepath, just with F:\ instead of C:\, but Minecraft INSISTS on placing itself on the disk occupied by my OS.
Here's my suggestion - when running Minecraft.exe, if a filepath to minecraft.jar is not yet established on that system, then let the user INPUT the desired filepath for the installation, instead of making it mandatory in one spot. My C drive is probably going to die in less than a year because of minecraft, and I simply can't bring myself to just not play.
I've seen workarounds that deal with batch files, and I have written many of them myself, but I don't understand exactly how the ones to reroute minecraft work and I never hardcode something into an application unless I know the exact mechanism behind it.
Honestly, would it really be THAT much trouble to accept input for an installation directory like nearly every other program made in the past 10 years?
Come on mojang, save my drive.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Darasilverdragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
Still, a proper installation would be nice to have rather than it just run itself from the get-go.
I agree with you, SSDs are excelent for installing an OS onto, but when stuff like this happens it makes you wonder why you'd bother getting an expencive drive only to see it chewed up by a game. a save location feature would be a nice addition. I support this idea.
as to the comment about Batch files;
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/9814-portable-minecraft-minecraft-on-your-usb-key
The fist line says this is where you're going to write to
the second line says run mc
i got a few of these on my desktop, 1 for mo creatures, 1 for SMP mods, 1 for testing stuff without breaking what already works lol
how dare you ;P i was typing and would have beat you to it
The point of this thread, however, is that this sort of thing should be implemented into the BASE. GAME.
What, I can completely re-skin the entire game just by dragging and dropping one archive folder, but I can't use a feature that every current generation program and their grandfathers already have?
Bull.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Darasilverdragon