Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Hope you are all well.

GW2 launcher creates a folder C:/Users/<Your Name>/My Documents/Guild Wars 2 where it stores user data such as login settings, music playlists and screenshots.

Like many users, I keep my game files on a different partition / hard disk and use the famous MS Windows OSs “My Documents” folder for other purposes.

I could not find anywhere within the launcher or the program itself a way to define the “Guild Wars 2” folder location.

Any workaround other than low level reprogramming the gw2.exe file?

Cheers mates,

Looloop

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Thanks Squall Leonhart,

Interesting link.

However, the command line arguments currently supported do not allow specifying the location of the "./My Documents/Guild Wars 2’’ folder.

Perhaps you got mixed up with the -dat argument used to define the location of the gw2.dat file.

I am surprised there is not a setting within the launcher or the program to do this easily. It is available in most software, including other mmos.

1. Make sure Guild Wars 2 and the launcher is closed.
2. Move your ‘Guild Wars 2’ folder in My Documents to a new location. Take note of the new location.
3. Open a command prompt window. To do this press Windows Key + R, type cmd in the window, and hit enter.
4. Run the following commands in the command prompt window:
   

   
   cd %userprofile%\Documents
   mklink /D "Guild Wars 2" "Put the new path here"
   

Obviously you need to replace “Put the new path here” with the new location of the folder, including quotation marks.

This essentially creates a shortcut/symbolic link which points the ‘My Documents\Guild Wars 2’ folder to a new location. There’s no real way to hide the shortcut, but it works!

Thanks a lot Dobz,

cool trick ^^ very smart indeed.

It works and actually, if you want to hide the shortcut that appears in the “Documents” folder, you can by changing the file attribute to hidden.

Looloop.1296:

Thanks a lot Dobz,

cool trick ^^ very smart indeed.

It works and actually, if you want to hide the shortcut that appears in the “Documents” folder, you can by changing the file attribute to hidden.

Be very careful with that link. It will behave just like the original folder. If you delete the link, you may delete the target.