Changing the Save Location

[gridbug]

Is there any way that the save file location (My Documents/Almost Human/Legend of Grimrock/) can be changed?

I have problems with the "My Documents" folder due to how my computer is setup. I'd like to point it somewhere else... is there a way to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ilsyde]

You can use the mklink Windows command to do this.

1) Navigate to c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock then move (cut&paste) that folder somewhere else, for example to your d:\ drive so it looks like this: d:\Legend of Grimrock (and c:\ will look like this: c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\)

2) Click on the Start menu, type cmd and press ENTER to open the command prompt. Alternatively, press Win+R, type cmd then press ENTER.

3) Type the following command: mklink /j "c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock" "d:\Legend of Grimrock" then press ENTER.

If you've done everything correctly, you should get a Junction created for... message. Windows will now think that the Legend of Grimrock folder is still on your c:\ drive, even though it's on d:\. Source.

[gridbug]

Thank you for this!

However, I should have mentioned, I'm on XP. I believe mklink is only available on Vista/Win7.

Hopefully your information will be helpful for someone else in a similar situation using Win7 or Vista.

If anyone has any solutions for XP, please let me know!

[Ilsyde]

Yep, it only works on Vista and above I'm afraid. If you're still on Win XP then give one of these a whirl:

http://elsdoerfer.name/ntfslink
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... llext.html

Both of them are supposed to work on Windows 2000 and above (that includes Win XP) but you still need to be using NTFS.
Good luck!

[gridbug]

Thanks very much. I'll check these out.

[grimgrim]

You can use the mklink Windows command to do this.

1) Navigate to c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock then move (cut&paste) that folder somewhere else, for example to your d:\ drive so it looks like this: d:\Legend of Grimrock (and c:\ will look like this: c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\)

2) Click on the Start menu, type cmd and press ENTER to open the command prompt. Alternatively, press Win+R, type cmd then press ENTER.

3) Type the following command: mklink /j "c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock" "d:\Legend of Grimrock" then press ENTER.

If you've done everything correctly, you should get a Junction created for... message. Windows will now think that the Legend of Grimrock folder is still on your c:\ drive, even though it's on d:\. Source.

great info, but what happens if i format my c drive? will i have to redo this procedure every time i do that?

edit: i have the game on steam. i'm just trying to make sure i don't lose my saves before i reformat my hd. will steam also back up the save 'in the cloud' ?

[grimgrim]

bump.

[JohnWordsworth]

Hey grimgrim, LoG doesn't support Cloud Saves on Steam, so you will have to manually ensure that your saves are backed up.

With this solution though you can actually hardlink your save folder to somewhere like Dropbox (which will then automatically copy your save games to the cloud), and can even have multiple computers setup the same way so that saves are automatically shared.

Unfortunately, you will have to set this up on your PC again if you reinstall Windows, but as soon as you hardlink the Legend of Grimrock save folder to your Dropbox and restart the game, all of your saves should reappear.