Guild Wars 2

I want the screenshots to save to my hard drive, not my SSD, is there any way to change the default screenshot save location?

Depending on your version of Windows, you can use the mklink command, which basically creates a shortcut, effectively redirecting where the screenshots are actually stored. You’ll need to first move the Screens folder to a desired location (D:\… in the example below).

Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) as an administrator and enter the following command, substituting your own paths:

mklink /J "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Screens" "D:\Guild Wars 2\Screens"

I wish we could change the screenshot format… the JPGs are horribly compressed.
And yeah, otherwise for the folder, you can use the “trick” Healix recommends.

Healix.5819:

Depending on your version of Windows, you can use the mklink command, which basically creates a shortcut, effectively redirecting where the screenshots are actually stored. You’ll need to first move the Screens folder to a desired location (D:\… in the example below).

Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) as an administrator and enter the following command, substituting your own paths:

mklink /J "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Screens" "D:\Guild Wars 2\Screens"

This did the trick, thanks

Would definitely appreciate an in-game menu option for it though, especially as more and more people now are running multiple drives.

Healix.5819, that command does not change the path it makes a link to it in drive D.

Files are still saved in drive C and occupy space in there. It becomes a problem when you have a document folder that is specific for your office work and suddenly game stuff appears in it!

bobsort.4097:

Files are still saved in drive C and occupy space in there. It becomes a problem when you have a document folder that is specific for your office work and suddenly game stuff appears in it!

When using the mklink command, a new virtual folder is created for the first path (C:) and linked to the second (D:). Although it looks like files are stored in the first path (C:), they’re actually not; that folder is only a view of the second path (D:).

If you don’t want others to see the Documents/Guild Wars 2 folder, simply hide it.

If you don’t want it to appear under your user account at all, you could hide it under a different user. Like this:

net user tmpusr pass /add
runas /user:tmpusr Gw2.exe

If you’re porting GW2 around, you can make simple bat files to automate the commands and clean up after yourself.