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Change Hero Lab Data Files Location

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Thorkull

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I've Googled for this and can't find anything.

I'm having to reinstall HL after a hard drive crash, and I need to point the Data Files Location to my E: drive. The C: drive is only my OS, due to space limitations. The installer doesn't provide an option. The "Program install location" properly gets set to E:, but the "Data files location" stays stuck on C:

Any information on how to change this? Pretty sure I had it set before the crash.
 
Wouldn't this be better achieved by working out how to have %AppData% located on another drive, rather than using symlinks?
 
Farling said:
Wouldn't this be better achieved by working out how to have %AppData% located on another drive, rather than using symlinks?
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Microsoft's official answer is "You don't". Using symlinks is the best way the Windows community has come up with.
 
There's also the Hero Lab command line option "-dataroot e:\path\to\data\". See the Miscellaneous Details link in the Hero Lab manual. (It's in the Help menu once you pick a game system.)

I use that on my main machine (via a shortcut that also opens the Pathfinder system on startup), and I've also gone in and fixed the registry entries so I can open portfolio files from the file system.

(It should really be a preference, though. :(
 
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