Steam Save Folders?

[Syndra]

I have Steam installed on my D drive but my save games are saving on my C drive. How do I get them go save on my D drive as well and not soak up space on my C drive?
I searched through setting but I must be over looking it. I reinstalled Steam but didnt see an option to put the saves onto D drive.
Any helpful tips or advice?

[Pcnuttie]

Read here http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2877848 It has a solution.

[Vanilla]

Most games are locked to using the C drive for saves.

[Syndra]

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Most games are locked to using the C drive for saves.

Thanks.
Well that is annoying!!

[Mattio]

You could symlink your game save directories to another drive. You could to it for all your games save locations all pointing to one "master" save folder.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[Glimmer]

Most games are locked to using My Documents which by default is on C and many people are unaware you're able to change it.

Either change the location of My Documents to D: or copy the relevant folders from D:\Users\<name> to your Documents folder on C:. Which folders will depend on the game, unfortunately there's not a standard on where to put saved games within your Documents folder.

[Syndra]

Im only referring to saved games. For example. My dir" is : C> Users> Name>My Documents >My Games> XCOM2.
How do I change it so it saves on D instead of C .

Games run fine on D drive it only that all the save games are taking up space on my OS drive. I could get a new larger drive but with over 1.5TB on my D drive that seems like a bad choice at the momemt.

[Mattio]

Originally posted by fauxtronic:

No they're not. You're thinking of game save files. Not game installation files. By default games install under Steam\steamapps\common.

Everyone here has been talking of save files, only you have mentioned game files.

Originally posted by Spideywulf:

Im only referring to saved games. For example. My dir" is : C> Users> Name>My Documents >My Games> XCOM2.
How do I change it so it saves on D instead of C .

Look up my link in the previous post, you can symbolically link your current save directories to your D drive or anywhere.
If you symlink your "My Games" directory to your D drive, then every game that saves to "My Games" on C drive, will think they are still on the C drive, but physically the files are on the D drive. From then on every game that saves to "My Games", the files will actually be on your D drive.
It's good stuff, really handy to learn.

[Syndra]

Mattio

Thanks,appreciate the tip.