If you want to decide what gets put on your system partition, you picked the wrong OS. Windows has requirements and recommendations to developers where to store user data and just because you don't want it to be that way doesn't mean you can expect developers to give you that option.

What you should do is get a bigger partition for your C:, change OS, or work around your problem.

You can move your home directory /Users to another drive. Might want to Google that.

I googled and found a post. According to it's guide things seemed too much trouble for doing anything.

Besides, I have many other games, too, and they don't consume C like that. My disk space utility shows big fat chunk of 1 Gb for CCP AppData folder - even though I have not given permission even for a single small file.

The EVE data cache lives there.

...Though, I wonder why you have a 1GB "AppData\Local\CCP" folder. Mines only 85MB

That sounds more appropriate, but I don't know why mine is 1Gb. I have not developed Eve.

There is tons of cache files. I cleared cache and it removed almost nothing. There is still 1 Gb of stuff under AppData.

..._eveonline_eveonline_tranquility: 1Gb

There is three cache_backups:
\ cache_backup0 509Mb
\ cache_backup2 463Mb
\ cache_backup1 64Mb

And the backups contain eg.:
\\ Most space is taken by ships: 267Mb, 278Mb, 22Mb
\\ Pictures 100 Mb, 40 Mb, 13 Mb
\\ And other stuff...

Your problem is that you believe that your problems is someone else's problem. Just delete the backup files and you should be good.

As a preventative measure the cache clearing backs up your old cache. Which is what those folders contain.

junction "C:\Documents and Settings\Djerin\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP" "G:\path to somewhere\CCP_junction_target"

I don't want to direct Eve screenshots to C, because that is for just the operating system and doesn't have much disk space. How can I change the folder?

And what is this? Under AppData there is folder CCP that has over 1Gb of stuff. Please clean it up.

In a broader sense, actually I don't want programs to save anything into My Documents folder or such, because I want to decide where stuff goes. If I don't give other permissions, then the program is not allowed to save data anywhere else. If I install a program to D:\ProgramX, then that is it! That and only that is given as a place for the program. But no, My Documents fills up with all kinds of random files.

Jup, u have to blame Microsoft (vista and higher) because of this, like seth Hendar explained.

/end /LUA:OFF is keeping all files beside chat/game logs and screen shots in the my docs/ccp folder and the rest in the game folder.
The "/end /LUA:OFF" option works mostly on XP due to this OS dont have this "all non static files can only be written in userland, in %userdir% or it's sub-folders." limitation

U can try to use /end /LUA:OFF and try set the eve (sub) folder the same as your My Docs folder. Try the security tab to fix write access (if you know how to do it)

Thanks for advice. Seems complicated. I am right, all data should go where I set them to go, not some other place that some other person wants them to go.

I just might consider changing to Mac.

In short. EvE puts its files exactly where it is supposed to.

oh and backing up the cache instead of deleting it is horrible practice.

Wrong. Horribly wrong. The correct place to put files is where I, the owner of this machine, say where the files will go.

If Microsoft says that hey lets make it so that files go over here instead, then that is not good enough a reason to put the files there, as I, the owner of this machine, have decided otherwise. CCP does not own this computer. Microsoft does not own this computer. So if they decide to override my decision of the location of the files, then they are effectively putting the files into a totally wrong place. There are no other correct places than the place I decide, because it is my computer and therefore I can move the files where ever I like, and as well the files could and should go there automatically.

So CCP doesn't put the files into the correct place. But they are putting the files into a wrong place! I mean, instead of nothing happening, they dump files where they don't have any permission to dump the files to.

Sure, if I didn't care where the files should go, then the operating system can choose. But, I have installed the program into a certain location and I have not given any other permissions, so CCP is putting the files into a wrong folder. And not only into a wrong folder, but into a wrong disk drive. And the wrong disk drive is also a big issue here as the C is running out of space.



Yeah. The biggest problem here is that the cache history consumes so much disk space in a place, where it shouldn't be in the first place.

I don't care about profiles. I decide a folder for an application. Well guess what? That is the folder for all of the application files. All of them. If something else is being done, I have not approved it.

I will point out the statement that is wrong:

All you did is you told the computer to store the static data into that folder. You did not tell him to store other data in that folder as well. A computer will do only what it is told to do. Since you did not specify the location for temporary files (I.E you did not tell your computer where to store the temporary files) it uses some predefined options.

Most installers are asking about the static files. Nothing more, nothing else.