FS22 Save Game Relocation

[KennardTV]

Hello, I'm have a hard that is slowly but surely failing. I'm wanting to relocate my main FS22 (Not Mods) folder onto my newly installed drive. I've scoured the internet but everything seems to point to the relocation of the mods folder. Can anyone advise how to do so?

[BernardC]

What you could try is to relocate on your new intalled drive your " Documents "

you should do a right mouse click on the " Documents" folder then select properties and thre uou can select a new path to it

[Dezza69]

Hi

What I do is use the command line command “mklink” to make a “directory/folder” junction from the “My Games/FarmingSimulator22/“ folder to the new folder location.

… I’ll post more detailed instructions later when next on the gaming rig.

Edit - … if you’re wanting to move the actual game exe install folder, just uninstall and reinstall the game where you want it.

[Dezza69]

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Steps below to move the game's save folder from the standard Windows install (usually C:\Users\<<your_user_name>>\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\") to wherever you'd prefer it. Mine's on the same super fast SSD the game is installed on.

I've tried to make these generic, and I also have no idea of individual users understandings of folders, command prompt use, etc - so ...

--> firstly, make backup copies of any important stuff, I'm not responsible for deleted files, etc ...

and, remember to change "<<your_user_name>>" to ... your user name!

"mklink" is the Windoze command line equivalent of the Unix command "ln" - it's used to create symbolic/hard links. Or a "directory junction" in this case.

You'll need to run "Command Prompt" as an Administrator.

1. Using your preferred method(s), Move/Copy/Setup a folder where you'd like your game save stored (eg: S:\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022). You could just move the current FarmingSimulator2022 folder to the new location, for example.
2. Ensure there is NO FOLDER in the initial/standard location called "FarmingSimulator2022" following step 1 (If there is, remove it or this probably won't work).
3. Run "Command Prompt" as an Administrator, it mostly starts in your home folder.
4. type in (and press enter at the end!)

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mklink /J "C:\Users\<<your_user_name>>\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\" "S:\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\"

That should be it.

The help for mklink can be viewed using

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mklink /?

- but basically it's:
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target


Hope this helps and is not too confuusing.

Happy Farming!!

(edit: fixed a '>>\Documents' mistake within the code link)

[heathcotegeorgian]

In order to do this, I used the command line tool "mklink" to make a "directory/folder" link from the "My Games/FarmingSimulator22/" folder to the new folder location.

The following time I use the gaming rig, I'll post more comprehensive instructions.

EDIT - Simply uninstall the game and reinstall it in the new spot if you want to move the actual game exe installation folder.

[styxman]

mklink command is no longer recognized (bummer as it is a great name: Make a Link) Replace the mklink command with the following:

(Run as Administrator.)

New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\<<your_user_name>>\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\" -Target "S:\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\"

Please note that the above command uses -Path to show location of the original Save Game site and -Target to locate the desired location.
The switch /J is no longer recognized as is replaced by the type definition: Junction.

For more detail on the replacement command (New_Item see:

https://winaero.com/create-symbolic-lin ... owershell/

Farming Simulator 22 was saving my game data to Microsoft OneDrive - My permissions did not allow me to create a link in OneDrive. To correct this, Giant sent the following URL:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 51e912b034

The above URL does not work as it is out dated. The workaround for me was to open "Settings" and in the "Find" box at the top of the "Settings" window enter "Controlled folder access" which opened the window noted in the above URL (sent from Giant).

Apparently there is no way to change the location of the game data within the game. Something Giant could ask for during install.

The above changes worked for me. Weird that the step 4 is: "Switch the Controlled folder access setting to On or Off."

Hope this helps!

[Thornweaver]

I just recently moved to gaming on PC, I discovered FS22 on Amazon Luna a few months ago and they are discontinuing it later this month.

At first installation I was having no issues, but then I started having major problems with slow gameplay. Sometimes it would work fine from the get go, sometimes it would start slow. Either way it would continue to slow down as I played. I also started to get notifications from MS OneDrive that I was deleting 500+ files per day.

Currently OneDrive encourages you to back up My Documents, as well as other system folders like Desktop and Pictures. It also prefers to store most files in the cloud rather than locally. Thus my problem, not only was my computer trying to contunually update the cloud storage with all the file changes during a gaming session, it would delete the local copies of some of those files so they would end up having to be downloaded again when FS22 called for them.

I followed Dezza69's instructions, moving the /FarmingSimulator2022/ folder to a location that was not backed up (/Downloads). Despite styxman's post, it worked on the first try. Perhaps Microsoft had a moment of sanity and restored the mklink command? Either way, if you are a MS Office user and having problems with stupidly slow gameplay try the "mklink" solution above first.

[Thornweaver]

Update:

This is why I hate it when software developers try to make things too "user friendly" or "helpful". When you have any situation that they in their infinite wisdom hadn't considered, you are hosed.

The procedure to make a symbolic linked folder works perfectly. But OneDrive is such a helpful program and wants to make sure you don't miss any of those backup files, so it also treats those links like they go to a folder inside Documents. In other words I moved the save game files and OneDrive is still backing them up. Sigh.

So the only practical solution I see is before starting every game session, click on the OneDrive cloud icon on the taskbar, then click on the Gear Icon, then click Pause Synching. It is a simple fix, just annoying to have to remember to do that every time to prevent lag in the game. Giants Software, you could have done better.