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Posted July 05, 2013
Hello there,

I started playing Torchlight on a computer which syncs the whole roaming folder to a server. Unfortunately, this folder also holds the Torchlight saves and I do not want to have anything private in this folder, so if I want to continue playing, I have to move the savegame folder. Is this possible?
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Posted July 05, 2013
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fsmcas: Hello there,

I started playing Torchlight on a computer which syncs the whole roaming folder to a server. Unfortunately, this folder also holds the Torchlight saves and I do not want to have anything private in this folder, so if I want to continue playing, I have to move the savegame folder. Is this possible?
One way is to use NTFS symbolic links, however you need to check out first how your syncronizations software behaves with them....
Alternatively, can't you simply put an "exclude" exception of some sort in that sync process? blindly copying the entire Roaming folder does not seems ideal....
Post edited July 05, 2013 by Antaniserse
Posted July 05, 2013
There seems to be no way to do this by game configuration.
There's no according registry key and no file that stores this configuration information.
Even modding tools won't make this setting accessible.

My guess is, the behaviour is hardcoded in torchlight.exe.
Post edited July 05, 2013 by DeMignon
Posted July 05, 2013
How often does it sync? You could run a batch file that moves the runic games folder in and out of %appdata% whenever you play.
Posted July 12, 2013
That is very sad, so no Torchlight on this PC. The folder syncs all the time...

But symbolic links might be worth a look, thank you. Unfortunately I don't have any idea about them, so... Google :D


Or: Can you tell me how big this folder gets? Someone of you with a large and long-time savegame, how big is your folder?
Post edited July 12, 2013 by fsmcas
Posted July 12, 2013
Savegames folder is small - less than 1MB, but whole "runic games" folder should be about 25-30MB (it depends mostly on mods folder size).
Posted August 30, 2013
You need to make a junction (not to be mistaken for a symbolic link!). Here's how you do it:

- First you move the "runic games" folder to your new desired location. Make sure you actually MOVE it, as in copy and then delete from old location! A good destination would be the "My Games" folder in "My Documents".

- To create the junction, run the following command in an elevated command prompt (run Command Prompt as administrator):

MKLINK /J "%APPDATA%\runic games" "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\runic games"

That's it!

If later on you want to delete the junction and move back the folder you need to do it with this command:

RD "%APPDATA%\runic games"

Do NOT delete the junction from Explorer as that will delete the destination of the junction as well (namely your save games)

Hope this helps!
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Post edited September 14, 2013 by deldewd
Posted December 02, 2013
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deldewd: You need to make a junction (not to be mistaken for a symbolic link!). Here's how you do it:

- First you move the "runic games" folder to your new desired location. Make sure you actually MOVE it, as in copy and then delete from old location! A good destination would be the "My Games" folder in "My Documents".

- To create the junction, run the following command in an elevated command prompt (run Command Prompt as administrator):

MKLINK /J "%APPDATA%\runic games" "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\runic games"

That's it!

If later on you want to delete the junction and move back the folder you need to do it with this command:

RD "%APPDATA%\runic games"

Do NOT delete the junction from Explorer as that will delete the destination of the junction as well (namely your save games)

Hope this helps!
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The only downside to this is that most sync software I've come across happily traverses junctions and includes the files anyway.

Using "/D" instead of "/J " will create a directory symbolic link, which is more likely to be skipped over by sync tools.
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