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Can games be moved to another disk/location?

A topic by Tatman556 created Aug 17, 2021 Views: 1,828 Replies: 4
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I have a game I've been playing, and it's installed on my C: drive. I want to move it to my D: drive. If I uninstall, I don't want to lose all my data. Can I just move the folder from one location to another?  (I'm relatively new to Windows, I use a Mac, and just got this PC for gaming.)

I was looking for a way to move the game using the "manage" function, but it only allows me to uninstall or re-install.

Thanks in advance for help.

Usually yes, but it really depends on the game. I'd suggest copying the folder first instead of moving, so if running it from D: does break something you won't have lost your saves.

Great idea, thanks!

Can you guys please help me, My C drive is full, and when I download Itch, it tells me to install everything in appdata, C drive.

I wanna move it to D drive. But i dont know where?  Do i put it in  "Program Files" and make a new folder called  'itch'? 

Then when i try to install a game, i tell the game to download in my D drive, but it will give me a error..


Thanks for the help

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That was the same problem I was having at first. I did some reading, and you can't download Itch games to the program files folder. Are you trying to install Itch there, or just the games? I'm not sure if it's an option to install the Itch app to the D: drive. But if you can get the Itch app onto your C: drive (which isn't that big of a file), then you can install all of your games onto the D drive.  What I did, I made folders that match the same heiarchy that Itch builds on your C: drive, the only difference is that on your D: drive, there won't be a "/user/" folder. Once you do that, in Itch, when you Install the game, find the folder you just built to put it in, and select it, and it will install.   Does this make sense?

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