game files in documents folder

[tymon-h]

Does anyone know how to change where the game files are saved? everything is going into my documents ( save games, mods, the application file?) and eating up my very small windows drive. It doesn't make sense to me that this stuff doesn't save in the steam folder that is designated for the game files. help!

[shadowm8888]

Open your nwn.ini file it show the location things are saved and you can change them their.

[Stromko]

I know that pain, I wish software developers hadn't started using the Users folder for everything. I spent like six hours a month ago sorting through old save files, figuring out which of the hundreds of folders in my Users folders I need and which I don't, only managed to free up about 7 gigs with all that work. There's ways to redirect or move the Users folder to a different drive but I don't have the energy to faff with that at my age, and there's a lot of problems that can happen from moving OS-managed folders.

Sticking everything in C:\Users must be some kind of Windows certification thing because I don't think it's anything but aggravating to users. The only benefit I could think is you wouldn't lose your saves and configs if you deleted the game directory, but that's of no benefit given that if you care about your saves and configs they're now much harder to find compared to if they were in the game directory by default, and if you lose your OS drive for any reason, they're all lost at once.

It's partly a tech migration issue since nowadays big SSDs are cheap and I could just go get one.. but the danger of my OS install becoming broken when moving it, and just the bother of the whole thing, has put me off of it for now.