Can I move the "Plugins" folder into another drive?

[Pepe The Great 227]

Hello

Currently all my SimCity 4 mods are installed in "C/Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins" however, the C drive on my computer has relatively limited space, because it is the system drive, it was never intended to install any games or games related items on it. Currently my C drive only has about 10GB space left, so I wonder if I can move the "Plugins" folder into one of the dedicated game drives on my computer, which have way more storage space. 

Thanks

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Yep. Other peeps have done it (tho I've never tried).

What you'll need is to tell the game where to find your relocated "game directory". From this article:

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-UserDir:path

Specifies the directory where the users game directory is. If the default subdirectories of "Regions\", "Plugins\", and "HTTPCache\" arn't found, then it creates an instance of, (in the case of Regions, it copies the default set over). The default game data directory defaults to being the same directory as the game installation directory. Quotes are necessary if the path name has spaces. Make sure there is a "\" on the end of your path or it creates directories like "testPlugins\" and "testRegions\"

If you are using the Gog version, it should be as simple as editing the desktop shortcut's target line. If you have Steam it's prolly set somewhere else within their launcher.

(Note: When it talks about directories and sub directories, that's what modern peeps call folders and sub folders.)

[Pepe The Great 227]

49 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Yep. Other peeps have done it (tho I've never tried).

What you'll need is to tell the game where to find your relocated "game directory". From this article:

If you are using the Gog version, it should be as simple as editing the desktop shortcut's target line. If you have Steam it's prolly set somewhere else within their launcher.

(Note: When it talks about directories and sub directories, that's what modern peeps call folders and sub folders.)

I found a better way, I moved the entire "Document" folder to another drive, problem solved. thanks