Guild Wars 2

>>Step1
>Right click your guildwars2 launch Icon
>go to guildwars game click
>right click it
>Open file location
(pathway should be C:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\Gw2.exe )
> locate gw2.exe , gw2.dat, gw2.tmp aswell as the gw2cache folder

>>Step2
>Go to your external drive, it’s pathway should be E:\
(in the event its another letter just change it to the corresponding one)
>Open it
>Inside it create a replica folder for each one from the ‘’ C:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\’’ pathway
>In the last folder, Temp, place the 4 files from earlier

>>Step 3
>Close the open windows but first set your gw2 launcher to the new path we just created
>Go to your guildwars2 icon launcher, rightclick, gw2 game launcher, rightclick, properties
>THEN!
>Change the pathway of C:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\Gw2.exe
to E:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\Gw2.exe

>And change ‘’Starts in’’ to E:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\

>Save changes, close all windows and launch and it’ll do the rest

McMercenary.1476:

(pathway should be C:\Users\(yourname)\AppData\Local\Temp\Gw2.exe )

No it shouldn’t. You had GW2 installed to your %temp% folder, which is where temporary files are stored. If you would have used a utility to clean up your drive, GW2 would have been deleted.

To move GW2 to an alternate location, all you need to do is move Gw2.exe and Gw2.dat since everything else will be recreated, or you could simply move the entire folder. You don’t need to copy the exact path either, so for example, you could move it to E:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe.

The gw2cache folder is only used by the trading post to temporarily cache files in the same way your web browser does. There’s no point in moving it as it’ll just be recreated in your %temp% folder when you start GW2. If you actually want to move it to save space, you’ll need to move the entire %temp% folder.

As Healix says, the only files that need to be moved are GW2.exe and GW2.dat
For most people those will be in a logical place like your games folder, the root of your use drive, or your desktop. You just grab your Guild Wars 2 folder and move it. It’s not complicated.

You don’t need to replicate folder names or paths either. You can have the .dat and .exe placed anywhere in any folder together and the game will run…

Thought the OP’s way looked a bit complicated.

In the end its just :

1. copy your GW2 folder

optional
2. copy your %AppData%\Guild Wars 2\local.dat
3. copy your Documents\Guild Wars 2\Screens