AnyOldName3 comments on OneDrive is ruining my PC gaming setups

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Really, this is the games' fault, at least if they were released in the last ten years. That's how long Documents has been a subdirectory of OneDrive by default. If you've built software that can't handle that gracefully and released it since, that's just negligent. It's not like the windows documentation doesn't tell you places that wouldn't have this problem where you can store machine-specific data.

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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I've been complaining about this for years now. Windows even has a library for saved games and some games even used that but for some braindead reason, they just don't anymore (and not many did). My documents folder is useless for documents, which is one of the many reasons I stopped using Windows for anything but gaming.

What's almost as annoying though are games that save to appdata. I have lost so many gamesaves that were hidden in the depths of appdata to windows reinstallations while my documents (and "my games" folder) sits securely on a secondary HDD.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago

Also saving my documents elsewhere (where I know and control where I store it)

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[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I hate it when games save in my documents folder. I use my documents folder for important stuff like my documents. Shove it in appdata or steamapps or somewhere reasonable.

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