"My Documents" not on drive C

[grindgrin]

"My Documents" not on drive C

I have a Solid State Disc (SSD), which is my drive C by default. Due to its relatively small size I use it for Windows, along with some basic programs. The My Documents folder I moved completely to an old fashioned harddrive. This is a more and more common scenario, I dare say.

Well, as myself, some of you had to learn, that The Witcher 2 doesn't quite agree with this user's choice and won't start, unless you move your My Documents to the default location on drive C. After the first launch you can move it back and it will work.

If it were only this once, it would be a minor annoyance. Alas, I had to move the folder back and forth with every patch. Somewhat hard to believe.

Is there a reason for this? A programmer's choice or fault? Is there any other game behaving this way?
Sometimes I wish, the recent games would still store their save games in their respective program folder like it used to be in the old times. But probably that's only me...

 

[DelighfulMcCoy]

Well, as myself, some of you had to learn, that The Witcher 2 doesn't quite agree with this user's choice and won't start, unless you move your My Documents to the default location on drive C. After the first launch you can move it back and it will work.

That never happened to me; did you by any chance just move the folder, rather than changing it's location, so Windows knows where to find it?

 

[robvdheijden]

i also dont have a problem with this and never had
go to ur c drive> users> ur account
right click my documents (properties)
then change destination folder

if u do it like that i doubt the witcher 2 or any program will give u problems like that

(some of my translations can be wrong since im not using an english windows)

 

[Aver]

I have The My Documents folder on the other disk too and I didn't have any problems so far.

 

[Systems]

I have an SSD too, with my documents on my other disk. Never had this problem either.

You probably didn't do a "change location" as has already been stated, and just moved the folder.

 

[Ydrisselle]

I changed the location of My Documents (not moved the folder), and the new patch doesn't work for me. The older patches were working...

 

[grindgrin]

Thank you for your kind replies, and my excuses if I expressed myself unclear.

I changed the location of My Documents in the folder properties (see attached screen shot) and did not just copy/paste it elsewhere. Of course the contents are "moved" in the process.

The support FAQ even mention restoring the default location among possible solutions to the error messages "Installed game version is invalid or incomplete" and "Game does not start and returns back to launcher", both describing exactly my problems and their solution. I mean, why would they suggest that, unless it really is a problem?

Maybe it only happens with Win7 Ultimate, I don't know.

Anyway, I can play the game, that's most important. I only hope Patch 2.0 was the last.

 

[hmarcbower]

I have essentially the same setup as you metalgrin - C drive is an SSD with Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, My Documents (properly) located on my D drive. Can't install any patches... game is currently at 1.1 (where it went after I bought the game back in May from GOG).

I'm not too enthused about moving my Documents folder around just to get some patches installed... surely, since every other game (including their original release and patch 1.1) is able to handle this, why can't newer patches?

 

[GuyNwah]

I have my Documents folder located on a second drive, and I have never had problems with patches from GOG or this site. Whatever the problem is, it is not due to relocating the Documents folder alone (assuming you relocated it properly, using the Location property, as your image shows).

Others have had problems caused by running with a small C: drive. This is expecially acute with the GOG distribution, which uses a slightly out of date version of InnoSetup that can't do its space check on anything other than the system drive.

 

[hmarcbower]

Others have had problems caused by running with a small C: drive. This is expecially acute with the GOG distribution, which uses a slightly out of date version of InnoSetup that can't do its space check on anything other than the system drive.

An interesting possibility - but I have a "small" (64GB) SSD as my C drive, and it still has 18GB free which should be more than is required for the patches (at least I hope so! )

 

[dada257]

I changed the location of My Documents (not moved the folder), and the new patch doesn't work for me. The older patches were working...

I thought I was having this problem too, and was not pleased. No way I'm going to move my "Documents" folder around just to install one game. My response would be: fix the game.

However, afters a couple of hours so of frustration trying to install patch 1.3.5 (to get to 2.0), I realized that I'd inadvertently downloaded the 0-1.3.5 patch instead of the 1.3.0-1.3.5 patch. That applied (and then 2.0) with no problems at all.

However, do note that the notes say the auto-updater will update all the way to 2.0. It will not. it updated only to 1.3, and then I had to apply the last two manually.

So bottom line is: having "My Documents" in a non default place was never an issue here and in Win7 Home Premium, everything works fine, (well, except for that whole ridiculous Eyefinity thing.)

It might pay to re-troubleshoot all the other factors, (as I did), because folder placement doesn't seem to be an issue, at least for most.