How do I move my Oblivion folder to another area on the same hard drive.

[Raiden]

Howdy, a lot of mods require that oblivion not be in my program files, and are recommending that I move it to c:/oblivion or c:/games/oblivion. I tried just copying and pasting the oblivion folder and restarting steam but that didn't work. It just created another folder in c:/programfiles (x86)/Steam/Steamapps/Common, and none of my mods showed up on the data files when I ran the game.

[Clever Monkey]

first, i suggest installing steam itself to the c drive. this mens uninstalling steam and all the games. depending on how many you have and play on a consistant basis this could be a real pain to reinstall those games. I see you have alot in steam and hopefully do not have that many installed and playing all the time.

second try running everything as admin. steam.exe and oblivion. exe and everything else by going to the file and in the properties select run as admin. But if possible install in the cdrive all of steam.

[Raiden]

Dang, you think steam would have a way to change the directory to play it for one game. It would take me a few hours to move my entire steam folder out of program files.

[Clever Monkey]

there may be a way but long term this what i suggest

when looking in the steam help files it does sugest to install to the c drive but when installing steam it automatically wants you to install it to program files. it is just wrong.

I had to do it myself at one point but what is worse is that at a later date i had to do it again after a windows update something went wrong and I had to uninstall steam and all the games from my c drive and reinstall again to c drive. no problems since. keeping my fingers crossed on each update.

I am surprised after your years of use and playing skyrim and maybe some of the tools needed to organise the mods for stability and conflicts you never sen it suggested before. oh well now you have.

good luck.

[Raiden]

Yeah, that is interesting haha. I might as well do it! I appreciate it!

[Nono54Fr]

. If you want to move your Steam folder, you don't need to de-install & re-install everything. Quit Steam, cut out the steamapps's folder from the main Steam folder, uninstall Steam (& delete all its traces) then reinstall it elsewhere, launch it, quit it, paste back the steamapps's folder (or just copy it in case of) into the new Steam folder then launch the new Steam.

. A hard link could be the way to go.

[CullinB]

Yeh I tested Symbolic Linking Oblivion folder under SteamApps common folder
(redirect it another Drive)
And it works fine.
it was good news for me for Nehrim install.

And there is REGISTORY ENTRY
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion
I don't know what use this entry but if you redirect Oblivion Folder, it will be safe to rewrite this entry too.