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Changing Eve Log Files Directory
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D4rkM4773r
Odium.
#1 - 2012-12-20 05:00:40 UTC
Hi everyone,

I would like assistance from anyone with the knowledge of how to change where EVE writes files, such as saving portraits, chat logs, or any other form of action which requires a lot of constant writing to a disk. Greatly appreciated and my SSD will thank you too.

-D4rk
Caltharian
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-12-20 10:40:25 UTC
the most sensible thing would be to change the location of the users directory from within windows

this will shift alot of the writing load from the ssd to your storage drive not only for eve but for many other things aswell, this is assuming that you are using windows ofcourse
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#3 - 2012-12-20 12:26:14 UTC
Use junctions to redirect specific folders if needed.

Open a command prompt and type "mklink" for howto.

so first rename the EVE folder in Documents to Eve2 then

mklink /j "C:\Users\Username\Documents\Eve" "D:\Eve"

Move data from Eve2 to D:\Eve


Do the same for AppData\Local\CCP to move the cache/etc


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