I downloaded this game on a new gaming laptop i have, however, the SSD thats built into it only has 125gb of space, and almost all of it is already taken. The problem im having is trying to move the minecraft folder to my (D:) drive, so when i install mods, i have more space to put more mods. When normally installing minecraft to your (D:) drive, it does not move the .minecraft folder, therefore you can't install mods there. Is there anyway to move the entire .minecraft folder?
System link to redirect the .minecraft folder to somewhere else.
You could just install other things to your D drive. The 125GB SSD is more than enough or most things if you keep the bigger ticket items off it. I mean my whole C drive is only 33.7GB of a 120GB SSD.
There is a method that I use that works with both the old and new .minecraft folder structure, in Windows OS at least. I have several versions of Minecraft set up each in their own completely separate folder wherever I want it. It's also the best way to keep heavily modded versions separate from each other. You then just create a shortcut to the particular .minecraft file and name the shortcut however you wish.
An explanation as well as a couple videos on how to do it are in another post I made a long time ago, link below.
Search for the advanced options in Minecraft launcher. You should change the configuration of your profile. Find advanced options and it should say where you want it (change to D:/.minecraft).
Unfortunatly that doesnt really work. It still keeps the .minecraft folder in appdata, and still installs the game there, but things like resource packs will load from whatever location you have set from the launcher.
I really hate the appdata folder and how reliant games have become on it. Keep things local, yo!
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I downloaded this game on a new gaming laptop i have, however, the SSD thats built into it only has 125gb of space, and almost all of it is already taken. The problem im having is trying to move the minecraft folder to my (D:) drive, so when i install mods, i have more space to put more mods. When normally installing minecraft to your (D:) drive, it does not move the .minecraft folder, therefore you can't install mods there. Is there anyway to move the entire .minecraft folder?
System link to redirect the .minecraft folder to somewhere else.
You could just install other things to your D drive. The 125GB SSD is more than enough or most things if you keep the bigger ticket items off it. I mean my whole C drive is only 33.7GB of a 120GB SSD.
Cast aside your festive doylaks: dragon stuff is about to happen.
Multiplayer is lonely once you understand how it actually works.
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system link...?
Basically a method of having a pretend folder in place of the real one, and it redirect to the real one wherever it may be. AKA Symbolic link.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
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There is a method that I use that works with both the old and new .minecraft folder structure, in Windows OS at least. I have several versions of Minecraft set up each in their own completely separate folder wherever I want it. It's also the best way to keep heavily modded versions separate from each other. You then just create a shortcut to the particular .minecraft file and name the shortcut however you wish.
An explanation as well as a couple videos on how to do it are in another post I made a long time ago, link below.
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Unfortunatly that doesnt really work. It still keeps the .minecraft folder in appdata, and still installs the game there, but things like resource packs will load from whatever location you have set from the launcher.
I really hate the appdata folder and how reliant games have become on it. Keep things local, yo!
Cast aside your festive doylaks: dragon stuff is about to happen.
Multiplayer is lonely once you understand how it actually works.
Alpha 1.0.4
so i guess there is no way to move it to my D drive is there :/ i don't have anymore space on my C drive.
From the launcher you can set the working directory to another drive, or use --workdir argument to do the same
Symlinks and NTFS junctions seem to not work in the new launcher so dont use those
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