Changing User Folder Location?

[Alex]

It stores stuff in my Documents folder. How do I change this? I remember you can click something in the ManiaPlanet launcher for the TrackMania 2 games that let you change the directory. How can I do it here? I already have a folder in my E: drive that has my stuff in it that I'd like for it to go to instead of Documents.

[TMarc]

There is a simple trick: if you have copied (or even better: moved) the Trackmania United folder from your Windows Documents to another place, you only need to create a file system link.
Open a command line in your Windows Documents folder: start - > execute cmd
Then in the console type: cd c:\users\<your windows user name>\Documents
and press enter.
Now create the link: type in the console:
mklink /d "Trackmania United" e:\<the path where you have stored your Trackmania United documents>

Make sure to have the same name as before for the link name in the Windows Documents.

Of course Trackmania should not be running during this operation.

[Alex]

@TMarc "Cannot create a file when that file already exists."
Huh? What should I do? I'll try moving the folder out of there and link it, then move it back.

[Alex]

Didn't work. Still got the error.

[TMarc]

Small misunderstanding.
If you want co create a link with some name, there should not be anymore a file or folder there with that name anymore in the folder where the link will start.

Before:
c:\user\Jack Foxtrot\Documents\Trackmania United\...

You now move the folder Trackmania United to e:\MyGameData\Trackmania United
So in Documents there is no folder Trackmania United anymore

Now you can create the link inside c:\user

mklink /d "c:\user\Jack Foxtrot\Documents\Trackmania United" "e:\MyGameData\Trackmania United"


And you might need to start cmd using administrator rights.

[Alex]

The system cannot find the file path specified.

[TMarc]

If you want help please tell what you are doing exactly.
I only gave examples how it could work, not a concrete path because I don't know your system... assuming you only copied what I wrote above ;-)