juliejayne wrote:Thanks, that was it...... set the directory to C:\Factorio.... and it works.

Glad you got that figured out. A bit of a necro, I was surprised anyone was replying to this thread 3 months later. Regardless, the community helped you out, and I like that.

My argument being... if you're going to write a guide it would be nice to have a "minimal working solution" to make it easier for others? I guess they could just read the whole thread, but everybody knows they won't :P. Though you are right to an extent, (I do have a tendency to over-expl...

1. Use steam "move install folder" to move the bulk data. "Move Install Folder" Is useless to me because the "bulk data" is already in the D drive since I told Steam that's where I wanted to put stuff. There's no need for that step. 1. Move config to X:\???\writedata 2...

Just for reference because i forgot to ask: What happens if you use steams built-in "move game to somewhere else" feature in the first place? I'm assuming you're talking about "Move Install Folder" under "Local Files" when in the properties tab? That just moves the fil...

But less than 1% of those people played Factorio, so it's not that much of an understatement :P . Even 0.1% of 33 Million active users is still 30,000 . And Factorio often has much more than 1,000 daily users. 1k users on any given day is usually a low day. Anyway, you get my point. lol. Not trying...

Just for reference because i forgot to ask: What happens if you use steams built-in "move game to somewhere else" feature in the first place? I'm assuming you're talking about "Move Install Folder" under "Local Files" when in the properties tab? That just moves the fil...

Can you guys just add an option for this in-game? I had trouble figuring this out (I have no idea what I did that finally made it work), and I've seen various quesitons like it on here before. Furthermore it removes the need to play with the config, which I consider to be a benefit (no playing with...

I then changed both "write-data=" and "read-data=" to have "D:\Games\Factorio" as their directory. Don't change read-data path, leave it as read-data=__PATH__executable__\..\..\data Also don't modify config-path.cfg. Steam will overwrite it on next update. Instead open...

Holy smokes! I replaced "D:" with "__PATH__executable__" and Factorio launched! That was so simple... *Facepalm*

Thank you Factorio community for your helpful contributions! This issue is now solved.

As far as i can tell factorio doesn't care about back/slash differences. You can use relative paths btw, which is what i do. Though i use the zip version and have no clue what steam expects. As a workaround i guess you could use the zip version and add a steam shortcut manually... Here's what my fi...

steinio wrote:Using \ instead of / in the path could help.

Alright, I tested using backslashes in both the ini and cfg and it didn't change anything :L

So I want to move: C:\Users\(Name)\AppData\Roaming\Factorio to: D:\Games\Factorio because I don't like the idea of having those files on my boot drive. How I did it: I modified config-path.cfg. I changed "config-path=(default path)" to "config-path=D:/Games/Factorio/config" and a...