personal folder question

[mx4Him]

i'm using XP so when i installed this game i installed it on one of my other drives but the installer but the personal folder on my C drive which is the drive the operating system uses. so my question is. is there a way to move my personal folder off my C drive and on to another hard drive on my computer? or can the game only access it on the C drive, which is the default drive for when i install stuff on my computer.

[yomo]

Unless there is a way to change it in the config file (Im not actually sure) I doubt you can change the location of the personal folder

[jlv]

I think you could use a junction point or symbolic link to do it. I haven't tried it myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

[mx4Him]

i'm gunna have to look in to this. thanks JLV!

[Phathry25]

Worked like a charm! Thanks JLV that 3GB personal folder on my 10GB Windows partition was getting to be a problem. Problem solved!!!

[mx4Him]

Worked like a charm! Thanks JLV that 3GB personal folder on my 10GB Windows partition was getting to be a problem. Problem solved!!!

i'm having some trouble getting this to work i've tried a few things but it's not working. how did you get it to work?

[Phathry25]

Download Junction. Extract it to the c:\ drive root for ease of use. There's a tutorial on the site how to use it, but I'll type out the instructions here also.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96768.aspx

Cut and paste your entire personal folder to where you want it to be. I put mine at d:\mxsfiles
Go back to your application data folder and create an empty MX Simulator folder.

Click start.
Then Run.
Type in cmd, click OK.
Get the command prompt to the root of your c:\ drive. cd.. then enter moves you back a folder. Default I think puts you in c:\documents and settings\user so two of them should get the job done.
In the command prompt type junction "c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\application data\mx simulator" d:\mxsfiles
Press enter.
The quotes around the personal folder location are so cmd can read through the spaces in the folder address. Replace user with your windows user name or wherever your personal folder is located.

[mx4Him]

it keeps say the it doesn't recognize "junction"
thanks for the help i really appreciate it.

[Vellu]

I don't know if this does the same thing, but here's how I did it in Vista(try at your own risk):

1. CUT the mx simulator personal folder to where you want to keep it. For me it was D:\games\MXSPersonal, so now there's a folder called MX Simulator
inside the MXSPersonal folder.
2. open cmd and type: mklink /D C:\Users\Vellu\AppData\Local\"MX Simulator" D:\games\MXSPersonal\"MX Simulator"
I hope I put the addresses right way around so if it gives you some error after that, just switch them around.
After this atleast the file explorer shows that the folder size in C: is 0 bytes, and all the stuff like demos etc. work.

[mx4Him]

i've still been trying to get this to work, but i've still come up nothing. when i type everything in now it says cant find source folder. i've tried it like 20 times and i miss my mx simulator.