Guild Wars 2

GW2 requires the file to be in a specific location, much like how every single other game requires their files to follow a specific structure and can break if you start moving files around for no reason. I don’t see how this surprises you.

Also, the local.dat file on my system is merely 48MB large. That’s maybe the size of ten pictures from a decent digital camera. If your boot drive is full because of a 50MB file, you really should upgrade your boot drive ASAP. And if your local.dat file is significantly larger than 50MB, that’s something completely different.

The game needs this file in the required location this is one file you can’t move no matter what also this file is recreated if the game finds it missing so there is no way around this. Looks like you will need to find a different way to free up space on you hard drive.

Do you crash frequently?

try this :
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#-localdat

However sometime its better to just delete it if there are problems with the game.
I also had to delete it when i bought a new GPU because of strange problems.

And 3GB is really much to big … and i would delete it.

In that case, I would seriously recommend renaming (or deleting, but renaming will let you keep all the old info in case it immediately bloats again anyway) your local.dat file and let GW2 generate a new one for you. If that one doesn’t bloat up within, say, a week, I’d go ahead and delete the old local.dat file.

If it does, well… that’s beyond my knowledge.

Beldin.5498:

try this :
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#-localdat

If you look at the header, it’s listed under Non-Functional Command Line Arguments.

Jigain.8231:

Beldin.5498:

try this :
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#-localdat

If you look at the header, it’s listed under Non-Functional Command Line Arguments.

Ok .. then i deleted what i wrote first for no reason.

So .. in that case .. just copy local.dat from one PC to yiur GW2-directory and copy it
back to your appdata directory on the other PC.

However .. mostly its better to configure it manually once on each computer in case
of different hardware, resolution and whatever.