Each of the games-folder of Origin to move - so it goes
If you move the folder, notice the Origin of this and prompts you to download the game again. To prevent this from happening, create the illusion, you Origin easy, the folder would be still there. This works from Windows Vista and above with the so-called "left". They then produce a folder that has the same name as the folder that you have moved. With the crucial difference that points to a folder on the other. Origin will not notice this, and so unconsciously to a different directory.
- You first move the games folder in the desired directory.
- Now open the Windows command line with administrator rights. Are you looking for simple Windows search for "cmd", run the program with a right click and select "run As Administrator".
- Now run the command "mklink /j source directory target directory". This would correspond to, as in: "mklink /j "D:\Spiele\Origin\Games\Sim City", "C:\Games\Sim City 5"" (without outer quotes and the inner quotes are necessary in the case of folder names with spaces). In this case, the game is now really on the "C: drive", for Origin, it is on "drive D:". Your game is now in a different directory, but is still functional.
In the command line
As you Origin with your PSN Account and connect, you will learn in this practical tip.
