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Forgotten Kid
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Posted - 2011.04.12 02:34:00 -
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The subject kind of captures it, my C drive is full and I can't really clean it without a serious amount of effort, but everything defaults to the C drive for temporary storage. How can I change that?
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Shardivh
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Posted - 2011.04.12 05:44:00 -
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More detail would be helpful, this question is a little confusing, but ill try and answer it.
Once installed EVE takes up about 6GB of hard drive space.
If you dont have enough hard drive space, there are a few options available to you:
Delete old files you aren't using anymore.
Download EVE to an external hard drive.
Get a bigger hard drive.
Get an additional hard drive.
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Misunderstood Genius
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Posted - 2011.04.12 10:01:00 -
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Then you definitely need a bigger or second /external drive. Everything else will make no sense because EVE will grow, you system will grow... so the option is: more disc space or you are in trouble all the time. What you can do: get an external drive and move the EVE folder there. Change your shortcuts. You don't need to reinstall EVE for this. Just moving the whole folder is fine. Additionally you can us the ...\EVE\eve.exe /end /LUA:OFF option what will handle your cache and settings inside the EVE folder. Get sure that you copy your original settings into the folder before you wonder why your GUI is reset and your bookmark folders are gone.
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Lork Niffle
Gallente
External Hard Drive
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Posted - 2011.04.12 13:16:00 -
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It is advised to make sure that hard drives or partitions that are used as part of system drives, not data drives, to never be more than 50% full after being fully used.
This means that a basic Vista/Win7 install requires at least 30-35GB of space to begin with, possibly 40GB as a minimum for a partition that will have just a OS and work documents on it.
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Uber Minx
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Posted - 2011.04.12 13:57:00 -
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Guys your not reading the problem correctly, all the poster wants to do is extract the temporary install file to their second/external drive. The Eve install/Patch updater does not tell you when there is not enough space to finish an install and as such it quite commonly corrupts the origional install leading to the user having to delete the eve directory and downloading the full 3gb install again. Its a common problem for ppl who use SSD's
There is no current way around it however, the installer does not have the option of extracting to any other drive than c:\
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Tera Jameson
Apocalypse Enterprises
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Posted - 2011.04.12 14:36:00 -
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Edited by: Tera Jameson on 12/04/2011 14:37:26
Partitioning etc... is not going to help.
The poor guy wants to install it using an alternative Temporary Drive than C:
As far as I know this is a default that you can't actually change on installation of the temporary files.
however If I recall. I Don't know if this is the still the case... but Eve online works off Flat Files....
So you could in theory install it elsewhere Copy it off and copy it to where you want to play it form...
Thus negating the need to run the installer on your machine with limited HD space.
E.G. Install it to a lapto, or Friends PC.... Then copy the Eve Directory to a USB drive and then copy that to your PC..
This will only work if CCP haven't changed how the game works/instalkls |
thatbloke
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.04.12 14:43:00 -
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see if your temp folder is already full of crap and remove it all.
in windows explorer type in "%TEMP%" in the address bar, it will open up the temp folder for your usage area - delete everything in here, as many many programs are in the very bad habit(s) of not cleaning up after themselves. You won't lose anything - it's a temp folder for a reason!
You may find that certain files are already in use and cannot be removed, which is fine, but I would suggest booting, killing absolutely every program you can, then removing the contents of your temp drive.
The other option, which is potentially a little extreme, and I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS MYSELF SO YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, is to redefine the TEMP environment variable on your system to point to a location not on your C drive - I have no idea if this will work, but it might - and if it causes issues you can always put it back to how it was beforehand. I can provide instructions for changing that variable if you require it...
 Originally by: CCP Shadow
I think we'd be better off with a troll shard.
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Woodman2
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Posted - 2011.04.12 19:17:00 -
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/change-location-of-temp-files-folder-to-another/19f13330-dde1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818
That link will show you how to move your temp/tmp folder to another location. I had to do it on an older computer I have and it works fine.
I'm curious to know if the eve installer will go to the new location, I believe it will but I'm not sure.
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Forgotten Kid
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Posted - 2011.04.13 01:28:00 -
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Thanks Woodman2, that worked like a charm. I should just get this to run on one of my linux boxes but I am just so lazy.
Cheers.
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Woodman2
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Posted - 2011.04.13 13:53:00 -
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NP, glad to hear it worked for you.
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Emperor fuqaundo
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Posted - 2011.05.31 17:51:00 -
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i found a workaround to this problem download the demo on steam it will dl to your 2nd drive but once they patch the game it messes up
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