Hello - does anyone know how to change the User Data Directory (currently stored in My Documents)? I would like to move it to a different directory.


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Im not 100% sure I understand your question. Please clearify. What are you doing? For what purpose?

Hi Cherie,


I am referring to the folder that contains your character desktop settings (e.g. where your icons and paperdoll, etc. are stored). The default location is your "My Documents" in a folder called EA Games. I would like to move that folder to a different location if possible. I can physically move it, but the game creates a new one in the default location. I want to tell it to use a different location.

You should probably just copy and paste it, not move/cut it. User Data Directory is a Windows thing. What exactly are you trying to do? Make another UO folder?

I appreciate the suggestions, but I am just trying to find out if there is a file (I did not see anything in the UO.cfg) that tells the client where to place the EA Games folder that contains the user data. I use multiple computers and one of them happens to be my work laptop. I point my "My Documents" folder on my work laptop to a home directory on a network drive and when I am on network my files sync and save and when I am off network they save locally until I am back on the network. Since the EA Games folder stores in "My Documents" there is a slight lag when logging out or changing in game options. It is not a big deal, but I thought I would see if I can have the EA Game folder save to a different directory. In fact it would be cool to save to a dropbox folder so the same user settings wold be accessible across multiple machines.


I am fairly IT savvy as it is part of my day job, but I am not 100% UO savvy and that is why I ask.


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I think that data will be found inside our client/patch?  Look in the "uoevolutiocustomclient" folder.  I have never done this, just guessing it would be there

snoop[ around your steam/razor, those are the programs that tell your client where to look for access/permissions & setting changes. UOE seems to like  C:\Games (on Win7:64) for its download/running directory for use. If you have an external drive as a functioning cloud on your own personal network, Id transition your core files & set-up there.


Hope that helps.


Sage

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The setting I am talking about is set by the unaltered UO Client and I can only assume it is hard-coded there. I say this because it does not matter if you are using the Evo client, another "unofficial" servers client or the official OSI/Mythic/Whoever they are now client. Razor or steam may have a way to override it, but I have yet to find it.


...\My Documents\EA Games\Ultima Online Legacy\User Data\ACCOUNTNAME\UO Evolution