Change default location of journal files?

[Suremaker]

For nicely compressible files such as text journals it may be worth enabling compressed flag on the folder and it's contents (works for NTFS filesystems, which are default on Windows).

To do this, go to "Properties" of your folder having journals (right click on folder) then on "General" tab click "Advanced" button and select "Compress contents to save disk space" and apply on the folder and it's content. This enables file-system level compression of files which means there are accessible for game as regular files but take less space on disk.

Some random guide how to do this: https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-file-compression-guide/

One more note: this should be done on actual folder where logs are, not on the link (just saying in case you used mklink already)

 

[rootsrat]

You can use the command mklink to do this...

Move your journals where you want them, e.g.: d:\captains_logs\

Use an elevated command prompt (open command prompt as admin) to make a link from where the game expects to find the logs to the new place you moved them to:

mklink /d "c:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous" "d:\captains_logs"

• Replace <username> in that command with your windows personal folder where all of your files are stored.
• Make sure you use the /d argument, which tells the command you're trying to link directories.
• You will have to remove the Elite Dangerous folder inside the Frontier Developments folder before the link can be made because the command cannot overwrite existing files/directories. Make sure everything is moved!!!

This worked perfectly fine for me