A20 Uses too much C drive disk space

[Defector]

Hello guys, let me first say... Big fan of the game ! Thank you for all of the great improvements It's like a brand new game ! The only Issue that I have is that the game takes too much space on my (C:) drive I've left only 150 GBs there and split the rest of the 2 TBs among the other "Gaming" drives. I have reinstalled the game, deleted all of my previous saves and validated twice. I think it is because of the regions being saved since the longer I play the more free space I lose on my C drive.  Even after restarting my PC the space is still taken which makes me think it is not temporary. I am on day 7 of my playthrough and It took 20 GBs out of my C drive. When the drive gets fully filled my game crashes and overall everything on my pc stops working (duh 🙄). Is there any way to change where the region files are being saved ? Is there anything that I can do to combat that problem ? Thank you in advance.  

P.S. My steam app and the game are not installed on the C drive.

[Beelzybub]

In Steam open the game properties, and in General under "Launch Options" put -configfile=serverconfig.xml

Then, open your serverconfig.xml and edit the line:

<!-- <property name="UserDataFolder"                value="absolute path" /> -->

 

Uncomment it (remove <!--)  and change value= to the path where you want your saves. For example, it could look like this.

 

<property name="UserDataFolder"                value="F:/mysaves" />

 

Also recommend copying and changing the name of your serverconfig.xml to something else or it will get overwritten every update.

Could be Myserverconfig.xml if you like. So: -configfile=Myserverconfig.xml.

[funk]

You could also just open cmd.exe as admin and use the command "mklink /J 'path you want to save to' 'original path'"

E.g. mklink /J C:\Users\"windows username"\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie D:\7DaysToDieSaves

 

replace "windows username" with your username, make sure the folder doesn't exist on the C drive, but should exist on the D drive or whatever drive you want.

 

This will create a "link" to files on the D drive which make them look like they are saved to the C drive

 

http://c-aviation.net/mklink-j-useful-tool-for-moving-fs-files/

[Defector]

Thank you guys for the replies ! I am new here so I forgot to activate the notifications option. I actually found out that windows is creating a bunch of Application Event logs in the Windows Temp folder which takes like 5 Gb's per day and I have to manually delete them now and then to free up space. It didn't do that before but I think it is not because of the game since it happens even if I am not playing the game. Might be just Windows pushing it's new version. Not sure if anyone else experiences the same problem but I will look for a more permanent solution than just deleting them periodically and I will post here whatever I find. I am also open to suggestions if anyone had the same problem and solved it. Cheers for the help and happy holidays to everyone !!! : )