Is there a way to change the install directory for mods?

[AmusableBman]

CSII mods are currently installing in LocalLow appdata on the C drive. My C drive is pretty small and already running out of space, however. Is there any way to direct CSII to install mods into another directory on another drive?

[sternenstaub70]

There is no way in CS II to redirect this directory. And afaik there is currently also no mod which could do this.
Also, mods should be the least of your problems as the save files are located there as well - and they can get really big.

However, you can use a trick in windows:
- create a virtual disk in windows on a drive which has lots of free space
- instead of mounting this virtual disk on a drive letter, mount this virtual disk into an empy directory. Best is to do some trial-and-errors with some other less important paths to get a feeling how this works.
- If you are really running low on C: , I would recommend to move the whole content from the "Cities Skylines II"-folder located at c:\users\<yourusername>\appdata\LocalLow\Colossal Order\ to the virtual drive, not just the mods.
- As soon as you have moved all files to the virtual drive and c:\users\<yourusername>\appdata\LocalLow\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II\ has become an empty folder, mount the virtual disk to this empty folder.
- Again: do some trial and errors with other paths first.
- Important: Don't delete those virtual disks. Make backups.

[terran]

if you have another drive you can use:

- move the Colossal Order folder to the other disk
- then run:
mklink /J "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order" "D:\Colossal Order"

[Kedryn]

Originally posted by terran:

if you have another drive you can use:

- move the Colossal Order folder to the other disk
- then run:
mklink /J "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order" "D:\Colossal Order"

^^^
You can also use Skyve (mod manager) to move the drive. When I did this, CS2 no longer had permission to access my files, which I resolved by setting up Steam to launch as administrator.

[Necrolith]

Originally posted by sternenstaub70:

There is no way in CS II to redirect this directory. And afaik there is currently also no mod which could do this.
Also, mods should be the least of your problems as the save files are located there as well - and they can get really big.

However, you can use a trick in windows:
- create a virtual disk in windows on a drive which has lots of free space
- instead of mounting this virtual disk on a drive letter, mount this virtual disk into an empy directory. Best is to do some trial-and-errors with some other less important paths to get a feeling how this works.
- If you are really running low on C: , I would recommend to move the whole content from the "Cities Skylines II"-folder located at c:\users\<yourusername>\appdata\LocalLow\Colossal Order\ to the virtual drive, not just the mods.
- As soon as you have moved all files to the virtual drive and c:\users\<yourusername>\appdata\LocalLow\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II\ has become an empty folder, mount the virtual disk to this empty folder.
- Again: do some trial and errors with other paths first.
- Important: Don't delete those virtual disks. Make backups.

What does it mean to "mount the virtual disk to this empty folder."? How to do it?