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pitch62 · 05-10-2018, 06:43 AM

The game when loaded does not show up in the documents folder. I've reinstalled several times, but still won't install in the documents folder. I can play to a certain point, but when I save, I get error messages about deleting data in auto save. Any ideas on correcting the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Matt Arnold · 05-10-2018, 09:57 AM

If you go to the settings/expert tab from the main entry screen, you can change where the data folder points to. So if you want your data folder in the Documents, and do not get the option to change it during installation for whatever reason, you can always manually create a folder there, copy over from where it did install your data, and then redirect the game to point to the new location.

Alternately, you may be able to change and run the game as an administrator, in which case you likely would not get the errors when trying to delete the auto-save folder. But you would either have to set it to always run as an admin, or that may not be possible on some machines either depending on your rules and restrictions. It may be easiest to manually copy the files over and redirect where OOTP is looking to.

05-10-2018, 06:43 AM	#1
pitch62 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 252	Documents The game when loaded does not show up in the documents folder. I've reinstalled several times, but still won't install in the documents folder. I can play to a certain point, but when I save, I get error messages about deleting data in auto save. Any ideas on correcting the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

05-10-2018, 09:57 AM	#2
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,731	If you go to the settings/expert tab from the main entry screen, you can change where the data folder points to. So if you want your data folder in the Documents, and do not get the option to change it during installation for whatever reason, you can always manually create a folder there, copy over from where it did install your data, and then redirect the game to point to the new location. Alternately, you may be able to change and run the game as an administrator, in which case you likely would not get the errors when trying to delete the auto-save folder. But you would either have to set it to always run as an admin, or that may not be possible on some machines either depending on your rules and restrictions. It may be easiest to manually copy the files over and redirect where OOTP is looking to.