Change location of settings folder....

[d3v1s3]

You know the folder BF2 automatically creates in "My Documents" with your profiles in it.

How do I change the location of where that folder is created?

Did a Google search but cant come up with anything.

Thanks if you know. :salute:

[signa]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

I dont know if you can change where battlefield saves that, but you can change the location of your "my documents" using TweakUI.

[RW-RogueWolf]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

You know the folder BF2 automatically creates in "My Documents" with your profiles in it.

How do I change the location of where that folder is created?

Did a Google search but cant come up with anything.

Thanks if you know. :salute:

Can't be done its sent there for a reason, to define a users profile.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

It can be done but that will involve modding the code of the game itself witch would be only used for malicious purposes. Why would you want to move it anyway?

[d3v1s3]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

Not sure. Just bothers me there. lol

I'd rather have it in my main BF2 folder. I figured there might be a simple file I could edit to change the path, but guess not.

[jdrou]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

Using 'My Documents' might have made sense when the game was released because muliple Windows accounts could play the game. Since patch 1.03 locked the game to a specific Windows user account it doesn't make any sense now. It bugs me too because I don't use 'My Documents' for anything else. Really no reason to on a single-user machine. I prefer to keep all my data off the C: drive so I don't lose it if I need to restore from a disk image or reinstall the OS.

[TheHeartSmasher]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

Same here guys, I really wish game developers would put everything with the game installation folder including the profile information. So when a user runs the game they can change a configuration file to use different profiles and they are all stored in ../Battlefield 2/Profiles/MyUsername

and a profile.ini, profile.cfg, so if one needs to do a backup all they need to do is backup the Battlefield 2 game folder like STEAM.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

Really no reason to on a single-user machine. I prefer to keep all my data off the C: drive so I don't lose it if I need to restore from a disk image or reinstall the OS.

My Documents is stored on C:\ drive what are talking about. I never used multiple windows accounts it doesn't make any sense anyway. Anyone that knows anything about computers can use the CMD to auth himself as admin and gain full access of the computer even on a guest account.

[TheHeartSmasher]

Re: Change location of settings folder....

You can change the location of a user's Profile by using System Properties --> User Profiles, Active Directory, Computer Manager --> Local Users and Groups --> Username Properties --> Profile, buffer overflow, and forced escalation to the system account.

You can make a users use of command line virtually useless by applying the correct group policy rules, to where they can only run what you allow them to run, everything else requires administrative elevation.

But many games will still try and put the game information into the currently logged on users default profile path even after you have moved it, as it is hard coded into the app.