Changing the mod path ..

Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks)

I tested this and it works great for XP and up. XP is a little different procedure. I didn't install the little helper, to easy to paste addresses after the proper switch for file or folder.

You would just move (not copy, cut and paste) the folder to the new location and open the cmd window and put the link in. You can access from old and new location.

Might look like

mklink /J "C:\Users\myfist0\Documents\My Games" "F:\My Games"

or 

I think with Win Vista and up, you can move the "my documents" with windows, but I like the Symlink better. Not sure if you can just do my games, but I don't think so. This also works only for Rebellion, not Trinity. I got Symlinks for Trinity because that folder alone got close to a 100gb.

Thank you. That seems like a great tool. 

But still, there should really be a simple .ini edit somewhere. It shouldn't be that hard to change mod directory.. 

You could make a mod to change the mod path... but then the mod wouldn't be in the right place... so the mod path would go back... but then the mod would be there again... Oh no! It's a paradox!

Haha.

I've been using the Symbolic Links, and it works very well. Great tool.

The walkthrough said that it would be very hard to do this without the symlink tool addon -- so, why isn't that a built in feature of Windows? It should be a part of the standard Windows stuff, yet it seems like a relatively obscure tool. I hadn't heard of it before it was mentioned here. 

"I think with Win Vista and up, you can move the "my documents" with windows, but I like the Symlink better. Not sure if you can just do my games, but I don't think so. This also works only for Rebellion, not Trinity. I got Symlinks for Trinity because that folder alone got close to a 100gb."

Do you mean that Symlinks didn't work for Trinity/Trinity didn't recognize them? Or did you mean that you can move the My Documents, or Rebellion folder, as opposed to Trinity, which is located elsewhere?

You can move the 'My Documents" so no need for special stuff for Rebellion. Trinity however is buried in the appdata folder and impossible to move without symlinks. That is why I got it.

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\...

It is actually part of windows as you do not need any add-on to do this, its in the CMD. I would not make this a standard windows tool, it would confuse the hell out of most comp users.

Note that command shells will tell you what the sym-link points to, in this example I used mklink /J to make the Rebellion's dev.exe mod directory the same as the normal game, from the DOS command prompt:-

The real name is shown in between [ and ].

or from Cygwin

Both show that the "Mods-Rebellion v1.1 Dev" directory is actually a sym-link to "Mods-Rebellion v1.1".

FWIW: Any Linux users should be fairly familiar with sym-links as Unix has had this feature for decades.

This tool seems much easier, and more robust, than the non-command line method (without the help of any external programs) I previously used. Neat; this will let me easily move all my program/game folders to my new SATA3 drive.