A storage question someone must have seen

[ELE241]

Guys, I've been having this problem of downloading Uplay. When it downloads, I want to put it into my HDD, however it goes into my ssd, which is not fine. When I try to move it over to my SSD, it won't move. Does anyone else have similar problems or can anyone give some advice about this?

 

[canadianvice]

Guys, I've been having this problem of downloading Uplay. When it downloads, I want to put it into my HDD, however it goes into my ssd, which is not fine. When I try to move it over to my SSD, it won't move. Does anyone else have similar problems or can anyone give some advice about this?

If it's being really stupid, what you can do is copy the files themselves (which presumably works?) over to the desired drive, and then in the original destination, do this in command prompt (start -> cmd -> run as admin) to create a directory junction:

MKLINK /J (Original path in full) (new path, in full)

Make sure the original location is empty before doing this (aka: the files are cut, not copied). What this does is create a "wormhole" on your hardrive, where any program will see it as a particular location (I imagine Uplay is just being difficult regarding moving its install?) but the actual data is stored elsewhere and will benefit accordingly.

This used to be a major hack to move steam before they implemented libraries.

 

[Jesse_20]

If you installed it to the SSD, you need to uninstall it and reinstall it, choosing the right drive as the destination. You can't just "move" an installed program.

If you are downloading the installer, you should be able to copy and paste it anywhere you want.

If you are trying to change where your saved games get saved, you would do that in the uplay settings once you run it.

 

[ELE241]

If you installed it to the SSD, you need to uninstall it and reinstall it, choosing the right drive as the destination. You can't just "move" an installed program.

If you are downloading the installer, you should be able to copy and paste it anywhere you want.

If you are trying to change where your saved games get saved, you would do that in the uplay settings once you run it.

I have most of everything installed on my SSD, so, you're right, I can't just "move" the installed program. However, the games themselves are the culprits in which they don't want to move out of the SSD. I've uninstalled all of them, reinstalled them, which took forever and ran out of memory to install the second game (I'm playing the crew and ghost recon wildlands, the latter of which was a freebie since I bought a new GPU). Ideas?

 

[ELE241]

How about this as an idea: I am currently using a samsung 850 evo with 250 gb worth of space. I didn't touch Samsung magician since I didn't need it at the time. So what if I used the Magician software and move everything from one SSD to a different brand of SSD, like an WD Blue 500 gb SSD for instance?

 

[Jesse_20]

Not sure that would work.
Try this though:

Close Uplay.
Copy the game's folder to the new drive (copy, not cut/move)
Open Uplay. Go to the games settings/properties change the installation directory to that folder on the hard drive.
Close and reopen Uplay.

After that, you should be able to delete the files from your evo. Make sure everything works correctly before doing so though!

 

[ELE241]

Not sure that would work.
Try this though:

Close Uplay.
Copy the game's folder to the new drive (copy, not cut/move)
Open Uplay. Go to the games settings/properties change the installation directory to that folder on the hard drive.
Close and reopen Uplay.

After that, you should be able to delete the files from your evo. Make sure everything works correctly before doing so though!

Tried that. When I went to select where I wanted it to go, it wouldn't allow me to move from my system files on the SSD to the HDD.

 

[Jesse_20]

Have you tried this?

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1551464-HOWTO-Move-uPlay-and-games-to-a-new-drive-Forums

 

[Jesse_20]

If you still can't copy and paste, you probably need administrator privileges?

 

[ELE241]

Have you tried this?

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1551464-HOWTO-Move-uPlay-and-games-to-a-new-drive-Forums

No, I haven't. This might actually be what I need. However, the new issue is I don't have the file space available for uPlay, so I might as well upgrade to a larger SSD. So would it be possible to use Samsung Magician to send data from the 850 evo to a different SSD, like Western Digital?

 

[Jesse_20]

I'm pretty sure Magician only works if the destination (new drive) is a Samsung drive. It will read any SOURCE drive, but not any DESTINATION drive, unless it's a Samsung ssd.

However, WD uses Acronis image, which you can get for free from their website if you want to use a WD ssd:

http://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=3680

 

[ELE241]

I'm pretty sure Magician only works if the destination (new drive) is a Samsung drive. It will read any SOURCE drive, but not any DESTINATION drive, unless it's a Samsung ssd.

However, WD uses Acronis image, which you can get for free from their website if you want to use a WD ssd:

http://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=3680

So if I get a Western Digital drive, I can use acronis and copy all of my info off of my Samsung SSD to the Western Digital SSD. Would Windows still boot if I did this?

 

[Jesse_20]

Yes. That link I provided shows you how to make an exact mirror image of your drive onto the new WD ssd drive. Then you can format the original and use it for storage.