Thread: Move lotro folder out of My Documents?

Is it possible to move the LOTRO folder to another default location (instead of My Documents)?

Apologize if this question posted and answered before; could not find it in forums.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Well, why?

The LOTRO folder in your My Documents folder is for settings and screenshots. It's very small.

More than that... the folder in My Documents contains the stuff you'd want to back up and move to a new machine when you get one. The bulk of LotRO is installed somewhere under Program Files.

its not possible to move the "the lord of the rings online" folder out of my documents, the location is hard coded into lotro and can not be changed. the only option to move the lotro folder is to move the whole of my documents to another location but even then the "the lord of the rings online" folder will remain in my documents

Originally Posted by Nakiami

Well, why?

Well, I'm not sure if the OP has the same reason as I do, but it used to really bug me when programs put their data into "My Documents" instead of into "Application Data" where it belongs. I wanted a folder in which to put my own documents, and I don't like other applications taking over my area.

Eventually I gave up on trying to keep "My Documents" for actually being my documents, and made a subfolder under "My Documents" with my own name as the folder name. Now I use that to put my own documents into. I've added a desktop shortcut to that subfolder and removed the desktop shortcut to "My Documents" and I mostly ignore that the badly named parent folder exists, except when I want to get into the application settings that end up there.

Thanks for (helpful) replies. Yes 'tis true *I* prefer to choose which folders show up (and clutter) in "My Documents", as opposed to allowing Programs to do so.

Given there doesn't seem to be a way to redirect lotro from My Documents, there seems to be an acceptable workaround: mark lotro folder "hidden" and voila. Game seems to run fine. Just sharing that in case others may wish to do the same.

Originally Posted by vonvoorg

Given there doesn't seem to be a way to redirect lotro from My Documents, there seems to be an acceptable workaround: mark lotro folder "hidden" and voila. Game seems to run fine. Just sharing that in case others may wish to do the same.

setting a folder hidden afaik is just cosmetic, if it prevents lotro from writing or reading to the "the lord of the rings online" folder (which i dont think it will) then you will have to manualy re-set all your ingame display settings every time you start lotro and lotro will most likley crash when you exit

just checked the lore book for lotro flash boost and ther emay be away arround moving the lotro folder from my docs, if you realy want to move the lotro folder, you may want to investigate symbolic or junction links which i believe can be used to create a kind of forwarding of a folder or file to another location much like lotro flash boost does
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226...dows-or-linux/
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

Well, if you´re having capacity problems on your OS drive/partition, you could also move your "MyDocuments" folder to a bigger drive.

To do that :

click on "start", then on your <accountname>(im using w7), it will open a new window, find "My Documents" and right click on it -> properties, switch to the location tab and change here the location for the new "My Documents", it will start a copy process to the new location.

I did this once, and never had to backup anything in case of a bad "virulence". Have the folder on D: and was the best "w7 trick" in years!