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How do I fully/truly move Minecraft Java Edition over to my 2ed Hard drive, with little to nothing left on the old drive?

Arqade Asked by JocWiil on September 25, 2021

I am trying to move Minecraft Java over to my SSD (S:) from my HDD (C:), but the issue I am having is that Minecraft is not fully moved over to the (S:) drive.

After moving the launcher and the directory file over to the (S:) drive and launching the game, a new directory is made in the place of the old one in the Roaming file on my (C:) drive. Thus I am having three issues because of this:

  1. A new directory is made every time I move/delete it from Roaming and start the MC JE launcher.
  2. The directory I want to be used is not getting used.
  3. I have not truly moved Minecraft JE over to the (S:) drive

My previous attempt to ask this question got it flagged as a duplicate question, likely a fault in my wording, and at the time, my lack of understanding of what the true issue was (or likely still is). As such I was only getting band-aid fixes or redirect fixes.

So I want to layout the Goal for my question as clear as I can:

  1. I want to move all the files of Minecraft JE over to my (S:) drive. (Check)
  2. (If possible) Play Minecraft only on my (S:) drive.
  3. To not have/not build a new directory on the (C:) drive when I attempt goal 2).

One Answer

Assuming by the drive names you are on Windows. The launcher creates the .minecraft folder in wherever folder the %APPDATA% environment variable points to. You can manipulate this variable before running the launcher:

  1. Put the launcher exe on the SSD e.g. S:MinecraftMinecraft.exe

  2. Create a bat file, e.g. S:MinecraftMinecraft.bat and put inside (copy/paste this, you need to be exact with the quotes):

     set APPDATA=S:Minecraft
     start "" "S:MinecraftMinecraft.exe"
    
  3. Start the game with S:MinecraftMinecraft.bat

The launcher will create the .minecraft folder in S:Minecraft.

I think there is another way to do this if you create a shortcut to the launcher. Then you can set the environment variable from the shortcut's advanced properties. This however requires a few screenshots to demonstrate which I am unable to produce at the moment.

Answered by Kcats on September 25, 2021

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