Mod Install Location

[Coach McGuirk]

I've begun using the in-game mods and it seems the game just decided to create a folder "Hogwarts Legacy" in my C:\ drive at the root and use that for mods. I'd prefer to have it save these somewhere else like Documents, but I don't know how to specify this. How does the game determine where to put these? Do they have to be there considering that it seems to be only reading them from the place it saved them, as they don't work if I move them myself?

[Redqueen]

Any idea how we can change this. Mine went in Documents and I'd rather have it in the root of C! Documents synced to my onedrive and overfilled it so i can't have it there.

want to swap?

[Coach McGuirk]

Originally posted by Redqueen:

Any idea how we can change this. Mine went in Documents and I'd rather have it in the root of C! Documents synced to my onedrive and overfilled it so i can't have it there.

want to swap?

Well since I posted this, it started putting them in OneDrive and overfilled my account, so I had to remove my OneDrive account entirely from my PC. The in-game mods INSIST on saving to C:\Users\Joey\OneDrive\Documents\Hogwarts Legacy\Mods\87986 now, and I can't reconnect my OneDrive account or else it will try to upload them all and overfill the account. OneDrive will NOT let you exclude the Documents folder from backups, so I am quite literally unable to use OneDrive on my PC thanks to Hogwarts Legacy forcing me to keep EVERY mod I download in my OneDrive folder.

Who's idea was this? Seriously, why did they think this was a good idea? Who actually pays for OneDrive and has more than 5GB of storage?

[CLeRiC670]

I would strongly recommend not using onedrive. I know this isn't the answer you want to hear but it really is a terrible piece of software outside of office use. There is nothing on your PC that will kill performance like onedrive will and it's ABYSMAL setup and options are an embarrassment to Microsoft.

You would be much better off setting up a backup gmail account and setting a calendar reminder to drag/drop the folders you want to keep backed up into Google Drive. Or if you're willing to take the performance hit but want an actual customizable backup using the Google Drive app for windows which allows MUCH more customization for which folders are actually backed up.

[Netoflake]

Hi. The same issue happens in my PC. My wife tried to solve it but is just a nightmare. Can´t find a solution anywhere.