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12/01/15, 08:36 PM   #1
Sargon_Starblade
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How do you change the addons location.

I would like to move all of my addons to D:\Games\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online but the games keep defaulting it to the Documents folder on the C:. Can anyone help?
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12/02/15, 12:54 AM   #2
Baertram
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I think this path is not changeable, at least not if you don't want to change the location of your user's documents folder to your d:\ drive.
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12/02/15, 03:52 AM   #3
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"If you cannot move something, symlink it."
- me

Of course not always the best idea, but most of the time it solves seemingly unsolvable problems.
  1. Move the folder to the new location
  2. Open a command window with administrator permissions (win 7: start menu > enter "cmd" > right-click > run as administrator, win 8+: win+x > open administrator console or something like that)
  3. Enter "mklink /D <link> <target>" where link is the original location of the folder (c:\...) and target is where it is located now (d:\...)
Instead of using the command line you can also use this little tool to make the link via context menu entries (pick link source; drop as > symbolic link).
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