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Moving install locations?

A topic by throwawayrcd created Dec 31, 2023 Views: 263 Replies: 6
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Hi

hoping someone has a solution to this

I have recently moved all of my itch games to a new drive. However, first, itch doesn't seem to recognise/load all of the games in the client despite them being in the right folder(the games still show up in on the old drive in the client despite not being there) , second the updates for games keep installing to the old drive? are there any solutions to this? 

thanks

how do i open the gl thing

While I do not use the itch app, are you sure you told the itch app the new location? If it tries to install updates in the old location, it does not look it it knows about the change.

I can't really see a way to change it. When you go to mange a games folder you can only open in explorer and not really do much else other than uninstall.

There should be a button to add a location. Did you do that and move the games to the new location?

Yeah. I've added the location. this adds the drive to the itch client. but you can't move the games there. I've cut and paste the itch folder from the original to the new drive, however, when a game updates it creates an new folder on the old drive and installs there.

If the install location and thus update location is stored per game and there is no method of updating that location from within the app, that sounds like someone should put a feature request.

In the meantime, if you made the new location the default location and moved a game there, there might be ways to do this by hand. It might be as simple as changing the path in a text file. I guess there is an xml with the path. If it is one xml for all games, that might be doable by simple text replaacement. If it is per game, that might be a hassle, if it is many games.

The Steam client has some kind of verify installation method and other tricks, but iirc moving an installation is not user friendly. So I would not excpect the Itch client to have that feature.

And if you wanna go that way, you could also try a symlink in the file system.

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