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Aug 24, 2014 - Title basicallys sums it up. Someone help I literally have no clue (I have both an HDD and SSD).
SSDs are great. Not make the world a better place and sort out your work/life balance great, but having one in your PC will almost certainly make it a slightly better machine. The problem is, of course, that they're quite small.
The standard advice for making the most of SSD space is to install Windows and a few key games onto your SSD and put everything else, like videos and music, onto a larger, slower hard drive. If only it were that easy.
Lots of programs, from iTunes to Google's Picasa to most games, save large files like thumbnail caches or save data in the Users folder on the C: drive. That's regardless of where you install the application itself to. They offer you no control at all, and in the case of iTunes and Picasa especially can quickly use up many gigs of precious space.
Fortunately, you can wrest control of your machine back even from these insidious interlopers, using the power of the symbolic link, or symlink.
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A symlink looks like a shortcut in Windows explorer, but it's slightly more embedded in that applications see it as the folder they're looking for. So if a program looks for a file called 'Save.gme' in a directory called C:Games and it finds a symlink pointing it to D:Games, it will load up the file from D:GamesSave.gme.
You can use symlinks, then, to move these large data folders over to your harddrive without the program that needs them knowing. It's outrageously easy, but first you need to find them.
1 – Open the Start menu and type 'Folder Options'. This will fire up the control panel that lets you see hidden files in Windows Explorer. With the disclaimer that any thing you do after this point is at your own risk and I'm not responsible for breaking your PC, click the 'View' tab and check the radio box for 'Show hidden files, folders and drives'.
2 – Now you need to find those large files. Download and install WinDirStat . This displays the contents of your hard drive as coloured rectangles. The really big ones are the large files you want to move.
3 – If you've got an iPhone or iPod backed up onto your PC via iTunes, you'll notice one of the large blobs will be for some Apple related files. This will usually be in C:Usersyour nameAppDataRoamingApple Computer, and you can find the exact location by right-clicking a blob. Another place files often get stored is C:Usersyour nameAppDataLocal.
4 – Create a duplicate folder on your storage drive, for example D:Apple Computer. Copy the contents of the original folder over to the new one, and rename the original folder something like 'Apple Computer Bak'. Don't delete it yet, just in case.
5 – To make symlink, you'll need to use the command 'mklink' from the open up the Start menu, click All Programs>Accessores and then right click Command Prompt and 'Open as an administrator'.
6 – There's information about the syntax of the mklink command on its Wikipedia page. To move our iTunes back-up folder, we'll need to enter this into the command prompt: mklink /d “C:Usersyour nameAppDataRoamingApple Computer” “D:Apple Computer”.
7 – You should see the symlink appear as a semi transparent icon in the original Roaming folder. Click it to make sure it works, then run the program – in this case iTunes – to double check nothing has been lost.
8 – If all is fine, you can delete the original folder on the C: drive completely, and reclaim several gigabytes of room.
If this has been at all useful, stay tuned. We have more tips for on how to save space on your SSD here.
I normally use Steam, but after purchasing the latest Humble Bundle I acquired several Origin games. My main hard drive is a 128GB SSD, but it's is almost full. I like to keep a few games I'm playing on there, and the rest installed on my 1TB secondary drive. In Steam it is simple and easy to select a game and chose which hard drive to install it to. Is there a way to do this on Origin?
The only thing I've found so far is this:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
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Seems a little OTT for what should be a simple procedure.
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Yes, it is possible.
- Go to Origin advanced settings and setup the folder for your games.
- Download and install the games you want to install under that folder.
- Repeat the process for all hard drives you want to use.
It will not move the game you already installed on another drive. It will simply notify you that the games already installed will not be moved and you can continue.
Steam Mover (as its name suggests) was written to move Steam games. However, it works by simply copying all files from one location to another, then creating a junction point where the old files used to be. This means that all you need to do is locate the bulk of the game files you would like to move, and use Steam Mover to move them. This would work for Steam, Origin, installs from CDs, anything.
As a side note, it can be used to move applications, document folders, etc. It's best set up for moving folders between two parent folders, tho, much as you would if you had a games folder on your SSD, and one on your HDD.
This is how I did it for Mass Effect 3 and Need For Speed Most Wanted from D to J:. You can modify the commands to suit your needs.
Step 1:
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Move the game folders of the desired games you would like to migrate to another hard drive or volume.
Step 2:
After the folders and files themselves have been moved into the desired volume, open a console with Winkey+R - type cmd press enter and use mklink in the newely opened cmd console window to make a so called symbolik link between the old and new folder locations, like this:
Don't forget double quotes if you have spaces in the folder names and the /d switch.
This basically tells the Windows OS to use a symlink, and thus this 'trick' works application-wide.
You are done.
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After this in the Origin UI the 'Play' button becomes again available for the desired games, eventhough, they now reside on another HDD/SSD volume.