Hello there. I am in desperate need for installing minecraft outside of my appdata/roaming directory.
This seems to have been a nightmare since the primal versions of this fine game, and now it became even more cloudy with the new 1.6+ launcher. The intention here is to also install the launcher files elsewhere, not just the profile instances and the like.
Would certainly appreciate if any enlightened mind from the community would be willing to help compose a new step-by-step for all those who appreciate some integrity and decency on their system hard drives!
1) Use the launcher to control where your profiles are stored.
2) use a minecraft.bat containing the following to control where your laucher files are stored:
set APPDATA=%CD%
minecraft.exe
Tweak as you desire. But you can easily have a folder that has all three of:
1) minecraft.exe
2) minecraft.bat (containing above script)
3) .minecraft
Confirmed that it works! Thank you very much for the help - I believe I had a different command line for the previous versions, wich's why it was not working.
Just for anyone else stumbling on this thread like I did, looking to make this work and not understanding what was said... The launcher executable itself (Minecraft.exe) can be given this switch to tell it which base profile to use.
This seems to have been a nightmare since the primal versions of this fine game, and now it became even more cloudy with the new 1.6+ launcher. The intention here is to also install the launcher files elsewhere, not just the profile instances and the like.
Would certainly appreciate if any enlightened mind from the community would be willing to help compose a new step-by-step for all those who appreciate some integrity and decency on their system hard drives!
Thank you very much for the attention!
2) use a minecraft.bat containing the following to control where your laucher files are stored:
Tweak as you desire. But you can easily have a folder that has all three of:
1) minecraft.exe
2) minecraft.bat (containing above script)
3) .minecraft
So you can throw that directly into the Target field of a shortcut.
Minecraft.net even has a guide for it now: http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/guides/changing-work-directory/