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....that 6 GB of demos that lives under C:\bb\Demos.
I like the speed of the local demos.
Can they be moved to another drive?
Quick instructions?
Thanks.
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Yes, you can use symlink.
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Yes, you can use symlink. There is no official way to move the Demos folder, but MoultiPass is correct that symlinks will work. That said, setting up symlinks without knowing what you're doing can be a recipe for disaster, especially if the location is on an external hard drive - Windows loves to spontaneously change drive letters for external drives - so I would advise against going that route.
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Thanks guys. For both the suggestions and the warning.
Leaving it be for now.
I put Relocation of Demo Folder in the Wishlist.
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One way to reduce the hazard (and I'm not saying you should do this if unsure) is to change the drive letter for your external drive on each computer where you would use it. I make my drive a high letter of the alphabet, such as P, on each computer. That way, it does not matter what other USB drives may be attached; that one for BIAB is always letter P.
Regarding Simon's correct advice/caution: In Windows, drive letters A and B are for removable media (floppy disks!); thus, C is the normal expectation for a boot hard drive. D used to be for your CD drive (remember those?). So often, when you plugged in a flash drive, it would be letter E. But those days are long gone with the predominance of multiple internal drives. You can use Windows to reassign any drive letter, though I recommend you NOT reassign the boot drive from C to something else, because you still may run into old installers that insist on drive C for programs. Make sense?
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Yes, don't ever consider reassigning drive C for any reason. There's probably stacks of hard-coded programs that automatically presume the drive letter C is where many applications are located.
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Regarding Simon's correct advice/caution: In Windows, drive letters A and B are for removable media (floppy disks!); thus, C is the normal expectation for a boot hard drive. D used to be for your CD drive (remember those?). So often, when you plugged in a flash drive, it would be letter E. But those days are long gone with the predominance of multiple internal drives. You can use Windows to reassign any drive letter, though I recommend you NOT reassign the boot drive from C to something else, because you still may run into old installers that insist on drive C for programs. Make sense? The main problem is that Windows will automatically assign the next available drive letter whenever you plug in a drive. For example, let's say you have only a C drive - plugging in your BB hard drive will cause Windows to assign it as drive D. Now let's say you also have a flash drive you use - plugging that in while the BB hard drive is connected will assign it as drive E. Now let's say you have neither drive plugged in, and you plug in your flash drive - Windows will assign it as drive D. Now if you plug in your BB drive, Windows will assign it as drive E! Suddenly all the symlinks you created will try and access files that don't exist on your flash drive. Manually assigning drive letters like Matt suggested is one way around this, however: The other problem is that symlinks often don't survive when they're pointing to removable drives, meaning that some day you'll come along to use BB and any parts of it that were symlinked will no longer work. Personally I recommend just running BB from one drive - either install it completely to your internal storage, or run it completely from the external. D used to be for your CD drive (remember those?) Thanks for making me feel old! But yes, I remember those - in fact, I still have 5 ancient computers that still have optical drives (three of which have floppy drives too), plus an external burner! Yes, don't ever consider reassigning drive C for any reason. There's probably stacks of hard-coded programs that automatically presume the drive letter C is where many applications are located. I'm still surprised that Windows actually allows you to do this.
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Ha. Yes, Windows allows it. And I have both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but they are add-on USB units now that I can use on any computer.
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