Please read the entire post and understand at the best before attempting to comment, I do not want rushed posts made poorly or wrongly written compared to what I'm attempting to ask help for.
A while back I had a few directories for personal modpacks I had, I didn't want to clutter my .minecraft folder with so many other folders and different versions of stuff since it gets pretty bad after months and years of using a single folder. Playing with mods or creating modpacks in other directories has no effect on how the Minecraft launcher would run, or work how it does, or any effect with how the launcher after installation is supposed to work.
So I had these working directories, launcher accessed them fine but my original .minecraft folder was so cluttered and terrible so I decided to completely wipe everything from the folder and start from scratch. Reinstalled the launcher, everything running smoothly in .minecraft, installing vanilla minecraft versions just fine. No modifications to any files are present at the time.
After clearing and redoing my .minecraft folder, my Minecraft Launcher refuses to put files in other directories or install new versions regardless of where I set the directory in the advance launch option settings. Every time I try to install a version with a correctly copied/browsed directory outside of .minecraft, it still only accesses .minecraft's version folders and everything else that's in .minecraft rather than using any new directory I put in it.
As I said I've had this working perfectly fine in the past prior to my reinstallation to clean up my original .minecraft folder, so I don't understand what the problem could be that isn't letting me change the directory.
Installing new vanilla versions of the game are still putting them in the .minecraft folder rather than a new directory I have in my documents folder. and the profiles still only show the versions that I have saved in my .minecraft folder rather than my new directory.
I had no fancy files or anything else outside the launcher that let this work previously, and I would like to keep it that way rather than creating some strange script or file to launch other directories. All the information on this I've tried searching up has only been outdated or unsolved issues and I have not been led to anything that helps this problem.
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The minecraft launcher gets versions from your original .minecraft folder no matter what. The only things that it stores in your custom folders are saves, crash reports, logs, resource packs, screenshots, game options, hotbar saves, servers, mods, user cache, and some realms data. If you are trying to install a new minecraft version, put the version inside of the versions folder of your .minecraft directory, and you should be able to run a game using that version from anywhere else on your computer.
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Remember those versions that minecraft pranked us with? Specifically:
Minecraft 2.0
Minecraft 1.VR-Pre1
Snapshot 15w14a
Those are still downloadable! Watch this video for 2.0:
To download the other ones you need to make a folder in the versions folder for minecraft and put the client and JSON file for the versions in there. They all need to be named the same aside from file extensions. Once you do that, you will be able to choose that version when making a new profile with the minecraft launcher.
ohh, thanks, it's been a long time so i've been a little unsure of it and it put me off a bit when I noticed what was going on and I was hesitant to try to install more versions or try to run new things incase it might clutter or mess up my .minecraft folder.
Please read the entire post and understand at the best before attempting to comment, I do not want rushed posts made poorly or wrongly written compared to what I'm attempting to ask help for.
A while back I had a few directories for personal modpacks I had, I didn't want to clutter my .minecraft folder with so many other folders and different versions of stuff since it gets pretty bad after months and years of using a single folder. Playing with mods or creating modpacks in other directories has no effect on how the Minecraft launcher would run, or work how it does, or any effect with how the launcher after installation is supposed to work.
So I had these working directories, launcher accessed them fine but my original .minecraft folder was so cluttered and terrible so I decided to completely wipe everything from the folder and start from scratch. Reinstalled the launcher, everything running smoothly in .minecraft, installing vanilla minecraft versions just fine. No modifications to any files are present at the time.
After clearing and redoing my .minecraft folder, my Minecraft Launcher refuses to put files in other directories or install new versions regardless of where I set the directory in the advance launch option settings. Every time I try to install a version with a correctly copied/browsed directory outside of .minecraft, it still only accesses .minecraft's version folders and everything else that's in .minecraft rather than using any new directory I put in it.
As I said I've had this working perfectly fine in the past prior to my reinstallation to clean up my original .minecraft folder, so I don't understand what the problem could be that isn't letting me change the directory.
Installing new vanilla versions of the game are still putting them in the .minecraft folder rather than a new directory I have in my documents folder. and the profiles still only show the versions that I have saved in my .minecraft folder rather than my new directory.
I had no fancy files or anything else outside the launcher that let this work previously, and I would like to keep it that way rather than creating some strange script or file to launch other directories. All the information on this I've tried searching up has only been outdated or unsolved issues and I have not been led to anything that helps this problem.
The minecraft launcher gets versions from your original .minecraft folder no matter what. The only things that it stores in your custom folders are saves, crash reports, logs, resource packs, screenshots, game options, hotbar saves, servers, mods, user cache, and some realms data. If you are trying to install a new minecraft version, put the version inside of the versions folder of your .minecraft directory, and you should be able to run a game using that version from anywhere else on your computer.
Remember those versions that minecraft pranked us with? Specifically:
Those are still downloadable! Watch this video for 2.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQdu9LKAdIU
To download the other ones you need to make a folder in the versions folder for minecraft and put the client and JSON file for the versions in there. They all need to be named the same aside from file extensions. Once you do that, you will be able to choose that version when making a new profile with the minecraft launcher.
15w14a is on this link:
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/15w14a
1.RV-Pre1 is here:
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.RV-Pre1
ohh, thanks, it's been a long time so i've been a little unsure of it and it put me off a bit when I noticed what was going on and I was hesitant to try to install more versions or try to run new things incase it might clutter or mess up my .minecraft folder.
I'll check things out to see how it works out.