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Hello all,

Im a long time Taffer and loving The Dark Mod.

 

I have a question which I hope it possible. My main Boot HDD is an SDD and it's not got the best of available

space on it, currently I have The Dark Mod installed on the C:\ Drive but I have a 1TB second drive with loads

of space on it.

 

Is it possible for Dark Mod to reference a remote folder with the missions in it which I might put on my other drive.

 

??????

 

Happy Taffing Xmas Every One

 

Regards

Paul

 

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You might be able to do something like:

 

mklink /j c:\thedarkmod\missions d:\thedarkmod\missions

 

Open a command prompt in administrator mode and type the above line with your directory paths current/new in place of the ones I used.

 

Then anything pointing at the "missions" directory in TDM should be redirected to the D: drive where your misssions are actually stored.

 

If you want to move multiple folders, you need to make a symlink for each one since we're not moving the root TDM folder.

 

You can type mklink /? in the console to see the available commands for a symbolic link. (this is actually a junction point to a directory that we're creating in this example)

 

I'm not positive this will work but it should be transparent to TDM. You can copy your missions folder over to the drive, move (don't delete) your missions folder on C: somewhere else temporarily, create the symlink and then test TDM to see if it works.

 

I'm not sure if the link is only vaild until you reboot (It may be stored in the registry). You can create the link, restart the PC and see if it still works.

 

If it doesn't, you can create a .bat file and set it up to execute at startup in Task Scheduler so that its always active. When you get a larger main disk drive you can just delete the script and task. Or when you delete the Missions folder on D: the link will be broken/removed by the OS.

 

The symlink WILL persist across restarts untill the linked folder is deleted.

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Why not simply move your darkmod folder to the other drive entirely?

You may need to adjust the shortcut which launches TDM, but that's about it, because there are no settings stored in the registry or anywhere else.

Rightclick on the shortcut after the move, select 'Properties' and then adjust 'Target', 'Work folder' and 'Other symbol'.

Or simply create a new one, if you did not add any specific launch options to the shortcut.

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