Why on EARTH have the devs not included an option for choosing install or download locations. My C drive partition is small. I don't want to expand it. Mymain drive has plenty of room, ED launcher is being an absolute PIG. Devs!!! What the hell??
Launcher insists on installing to C drive!!!
- Thread starter Mars Lightweaver
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You can choose whether to install the launcher on another drive. The game will install on that same drive. The only problem is that during installation, unless I'm mistaken, the files go through your tmp files on c.
So you need disk space. I had the same problem... I had to start the installation, then stop it at like 20%, empty my tmp files and restart the installation several times... it's long and tedious, but it can be done...
What I mean is, launcher uses a temp folder and installs AppData to c drive. My C drive partition is too small and won't expand any further. I'm going to have to move windows to a larger drive eventually. ED launcher when downloading ED for installation, parks all the data in my User/AppData folder and won't let me choose another destination.I wonder how mine is on my D: drive then? LOL
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Does anyone know of a workaround that doesn't involve the mklink tweaks?
Nope, but if nobody offers a known-good solution then you just might be able to invoke it from a CMD window in which you've redefined the TEMP and/or TMP variables and thus have it use another location... (Actually, failing that, you could even try redefining those variables at system level.)
Can't you just point the system %TEMP% and %TMP% folders somewhere else? 
change instaltion drive youre choice abcd. move docs to that drive,cant see a proplem its in youre settings if you look,i have 3 drives one for ops the rest for games and i am not a whizz kid,