Moving games back and forth from external HDD to internal SSD

[devfrost]

Just to be clear, i'm not talking about playing games from the external HDD. It'll be too slow. I want to free up more space on my internal SSD. I want to take some games that I don't play often out of the internal SSD and put them on the external HDD, so that when I do feel like playing them I can just move them back to the SSD. Is it really as simple as just cut-pasting the game's folder in Program Files and just storing it in the HDD then moving it back to SSD whenever I feel like it? Sorry if it's a dumb question.

 

[toshibitsu]

No it's not that simple. When a game is installed, it's configured in Windows to run specifically from that directory. If you suddenly moved it to another directory, there's a good chance it's not going to work anymore(unless the game was merely just dumped to that specific directory and that's it).

 

[devfrost]

No it's not that simple. When a game is installed, it's configured in Windows to run specifically from that directory. If you suddenly moved it to another directory, there's a good chance it's not going to work anymore(unless the game was merely just dumped to that specific directory and that's it).

So to make clear, let me use the specific game I'm trying to move:
1. Installed MGSV on internal SSD
2. Move C:\Program Files\MGSV to external HDD for storage
3. Move back C:\Program Files\MGSV to original location in internal SSD for playback.

This is not possible?

 

[toshibitsu]

If you are moving it off of the SSD to the external(for storage) and you then later put it back into the original folder, then it will work yes.

What I originally meant was that you can't simply move a game to a different folder and run it.

 

[devfrost]

Thanks!