Hardlinks only work within a single drive, so they do not provide the benefit of space saving on the C: drive, which is the primary goal of this utility.
The shell extension does sym-links too, which I use drive to drive and network to drive, and vice-versa.
Good to have a tool that introduces people to this idea. I've created a lot of symbolic links on my daughter's SSD due to the fact she keeps installing things to program files
I was surprised when there weren't any utilities for doing this aimed at the gaming community, especially since so many games write saves to the C drive.
First thing first, I'm sorry if my post would seem demeaning to your work here. I understand the goal of your work but something much better comes to mind. This is something I've been using for years already (yes, I'm a working adult, thank you).
- for Win7 / Win8 users http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html
- for Vista users (essentially the same procedure as above link) http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/moving-your-personal-data-folders-in-windows-vista-the-easy-way/
- for WinXP users aka the old-fashioned ones http://thundercloud.net/information-avenue/my-documents/
The long-term benefits of following the tip(s) above does not just affect your Skyrim savegames but also other user-generated data (pictures, videos, documents, etc.). I, myself, do not move all folders just those that are most likely to accumulate a sizeable amount of disk space.
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Good to have a tool that introduces people to this idea. I've created a lot of symbolic links on my daughter's SSD due to the fact she keeps installing things to program files
- for Win7 / Win8 users
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html
- for Vista users (essentially the same procedure as above link)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/moving-your-personal-data-folders-in-windows-vista-the-easy-way/
- for WinXP users aka the old-fashioned ones
http://thundercloud.net/information-avenue/my-documents/
The long-term benefits of following the tip(s) above does not just affect your Skyrim savegames but also other user-generated data (pictures, videos, documents, etc.). I, myself, do not move all folders just those that are most likely to accumulate a sizeable amount of disk space.