Moving A File To A Different Folder?

[RobcioPL]

I installed Call of Duty several months ago, lost one of the 2 cd's, and i would like to move the game(including the expansion pack) to my drive D. My Drive C is almost full. Is this possible? If so how?

 

[livemusic]

Ctrl+X Ctrl+V ?

 

[cardude2004]

Ctrl+X Ctrl+V ?

That won't work because some files will try to reference files on the C drive and it will mess up the drive path. You need to uninstall the program and reinstall it on the drive you wish to have the game stored on.

 

[livemusic]

That won't work because some files will try to reference files on the C drive and it will mess up the drive path. You need to uninstall the program and reinstall it on the drive you wish to have the game stored on.

He said he lost one of the instalation cds.

I think you should try to do what I´ve said. It might work just fine. You will need to create new shortcuts to your desktop though.

 

[Giancarlo]

I tried right-dragging UT2004 like that. Doesn't work.

I'd reccomend just moving/reinstalling all your other secondary programs. Usually music files are moved easiest.

 

[sUn]

Your going to have to re-install the program to the drive(eg. C: ) you want the game on. 👍

 

[skip0110]

Your going to have to re-install the program to the drive(eg. C: ) you want the game on. 👍

He Doesnt Have The CD!

If you just copy-paste the files, then it likely wont work. You should copy the files, then create a hardlink to the folder where you moved the files with the same name as the previous location of the files. (I am assuming you have a NTFS partition.)

Use Junction to create hardlinks. If you need more detailed instructions, Google "hardlinks on Windows".

This is the Junction tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

 

[cardude2004]

He said he lost one of the instalation cds.

I think you should try to do what I´ve said. It might work just fine. You will need to create new shortcuts to your desktop though.

I have tried copying before and it does NOT work! You just get a bunch of error that say the program can't find a file because you broke the link between files.

 

[VT]

You still have the matter of updating the program's references in the registery which isn't taken care of just by a simple cut/paste (which is what is causing the errors mentioned in cardude's post). The only way that it is guaranteed to work is reinstalling the program and if you don't have the CD or a way to access the CD it looks like you'll just be better off moving a non program to save the space, IE all those MP3 files I can safely assume you have on your computer .

 

[skip0110]

You still have the matter of updating the program's references in the registery which isn't taken care of just by a simple cut/paste (which is what is causing the errors mentioned in cardude's post). The only way that it is guaranteed to work ......

If you hardlink as I outlined in my post, Windows will think the files are in the same location--registry files, dlls, executables--as far as the OS is concerened nothing will be moved.

 

[Shannon]

He Doesnt Have The CD!

If you just copy-paste the files, then it likely wont work. You should copy the files, then create a hardlink to the folder where you moved the files with the same name as the previous location of the files. (I am assuming you have a NTFS partition.)

Use Junction to create hardlinks. If you need more detailed instructions, Google "hardlinks on Windows".

This is the Junction tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

I learned something new today. 👍

 

[VT]

I learned something new today. 👍

Agreed . Thats a handly little sucker that Junction program is. I'm taking that you've used it before Skip?

 

[cardude2004]

That is a good program.