Locations for saves

[Captain Chris]

I think I know the sad answer to this but thought I'd double check anyway.
I need to have X4 save games somewhere other than my Documents, can I do this?

I have Onedrive for my business, I need it, it is (mostly) good.
It syncs my documents folder. I need it to do this for my business.
I can't stop it syncing individual files (Well apparently I can but I have no clue how to do it as a personal user, so if anyone can explain that would also be a good solution)

In the old days of yore, we could choose directories and things like that, how has progress made us go backwards like this and force us to use 1 spot and only 1 spot :(

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by GanjaDemon:

I need to have X4 save games somewhere other than my Documents, can I do this?

You can make a custom directory somewhere you like and then, after a playing-session, copy your saves into that.

[MooCows]

The only way I know of to relocate the X4 save folder is with a symbolic link, but I believe OneDrive honors those, so you'll have the same problem of saves being synced to the cloud.

If you have admin permissions for your OneDrive account you can follow instructions here[docs.microsoft.com] and block GZ files (the file extension used by X4 saves). That would probably be the cleanest solution.

Alternatively... I haven't tested this and cannot guarantee it will work, but based on a workaround I've read:

1) Back up your X4 save folder in another location.
2) Empty the folder, then add an empty text file named DoNotSync or something obvious and sync the folder with the cloud. (This step isn't necessary if you don't care about leaving old copies of your saves taking up cloud space, but something needs to be on the cloud for this to work.)
3) Next, go into OneDrive's app settings and exclude the X4 save folder - this will cause the local copy of the folder to be hidden/deleted.
[Instructions on how to do this [url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-which-onedrive-folders-to-sync-to-your-computer-98b8b011-8b94-419b-aa95-a14ff2415e85]here[/url].
4) Copy your save folder back into its original place.

Since the save folder out on the cloud is excluded for this PC, it should no longer attempt to sync that directory location - ergo, your new save folder and its contents won't be uploaded.

Unfortunately, Onedrive will start complaining about the folder in question having conflicting local/cloud versions. So it may or may not be worth the headache.