Is it possible to redirect the folder for the saves?

[th3toadd]

Want to have skyrim + MO running on my ssd but I want to keep my saves on my HDD since I save very frequently

[IsharaMeradin]

bUseMyGamesDirectory=

 

You might want to read more here before you try that setting.

 

https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Skyrim_INI/General#bUseMyGamesDirectory

MO insists on it being 0 when using local saves. This is why I thought it would work.  You got me to test some scenarios, however, and it shot my idea to pieces.

 

Sticking with what I know will work, we'll pull a page from Wrye Bash...

Change your Documents folder location to a different drive as instructed above.

Set your MO profiles to not use local saves

Edit each Skyrim.ini for each profile

Change sLocalSavePath= under [General] to point to a sub folder of "Documents\My Games\Skyrim"    i.e.  sLocalSavePath="Saves\profile1"

 

That should give you your saves in each of their own folders on a different drive.

[Joat_Mon]

If you are not using "local saves" then you can change the location of your C:\Users\yourusername\Documents folder with the Folder Properties dialog box, choose the Location tab to select whatever location you wish. Your game saves will be written to the new location as they are saved in a sub-folder of the that Documents folder.

Edited August 26, 2016 by Joat_Mon

[th3toadd]

Thanks for the info, didn't realize there was a local saves option... But I'd still like to find out if its possible to redirect the saves folder to a different drive for each profile I have

[Joat_Mon]

That solution works when you do not use local saves, which is the default behavior. Otherwise its not really possible to just redirect an individual profile's saves to another drive.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Joat_Mon

[IsharaMeradin]

No need to mess with changing where the Documents folder is stored.  You can make the following changes to your initweaks.ini file in your specific profile folder located at "Mod Organizer\profiles"

[General]
bUseMyGamesDirectory=
SLocalSavePath=

Set bUseMyGamesDirectory to 1 to use your Documents folder. Set to 0 to use any other location.

SLocalSavePath should be set to the path that you want.  If bUseMyGamesDirectory is 1, the path is relative to "Documents\My Games\Skyrim"  If it is 0, then you need to enter the full path.  Please note, I'm not sure if you need to use quotes or not.  Probably do.

 

These changes also work with the Skyrim.ini file unless you are using local saves in which case the initweaks.ini file overrides it.

[Joat_Mon]

bUseMyGamesDirectory=

 

You might want to read more here before you try that setting.

 

https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Skyrim_INI/General#bUseMyGamesDirectory

[th3toadd]

So I have moved my documents folder to a new location G:\Users\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves\DefaultProfile\

 

Now I edit the initweaks.ini in the default profile folder of MO to

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
[General]
bUseMyGamesDirectory=0
SLocalSavePath=Saves\DefaultProfile\

 

But every time I start up MO it reverts to the default SLocalSavePath=__MOProfileSave__\

[th3toadd]

hmm for some reason I don't see a button to edit my last post.. Anyways I'm dumb and I've got this figured out now, thanks for your help guys!

[IsharaMeradin]

Most users on the site can only edit their posts within 15 minutes.  Something to do with thread continuity is the reason.