Title says it all, but saving game data to My Documents is a terrible mistake. It causes OneDrive sync issues as replays are actively streamed (causing network delays), it takes up valuable subscription space, and worst of all it effectively spreads the game across multiple install locations making it harder to backup/cleanup/whatever.
Please let me redirect this to a sub folder of HOTS itself. Its currently a hot mess.
Ever since Windows Vista the Program Files folder has become a user read only folder. It requires administrator permission to modify, granted only during installation with user request or by a signed updater (BattleNet app, Windows Update, etc). When a user runs a program normally, it will not be able to modify its Program Files folder in any way. Sure it can when run with administrator permission, but that is really a stupid thing to do from a security perspective.
Simply put, a program should never write data to its own Program Files folder. User data should be written to the documents folder, which is what all Blizzard games, even Warcraft III, do.
This does not make any sense⌠All user data for HotS is inside the documents folder, which is what one needs to backup and what one drive does automatically by the sound of things. The program files data for HotS does not need to be backed up since it can be recreated by reinstalling Heroes of the Storm from the BattleNet application.
Disable syncing of the replays and logs folders in one drive? Those take most of the space and suffer from streaming files.
In any case you can achieve what you want to some extent using a shortcut. You can place the physical HotS folder anywhere you want and then place a shortcut or symbolic link to the folder in the documents folder. The folder would logically appear in the documents folder but be physically located somewhere else.
if i try to move the folder from the 500gig ssd c:drive to the 2 terabyte d: drive it only creates a shortcut. If I copy everything to a d drive folder then delete the files will creating a shortcut in the c drive redirect the saves automatically generated from the game to the new folder on the d drive. I believe is whatâs being asked here.
I know I like to have all my game saves/replays on the larger drive. Mixer one time stored 20+ hours of live streaming on my c:drive and filled it up⌠Changing itâs directory or turning off auto saves was a few clicks. Blizzard seems to want you to have all your replays, unless you delete EACH one after the fact, wasting time re-queuing. The feature was in the game prior to windows 10 and most of their updates over the last 2 years have been horrible (crashing machines, integration issues, and compatability with just about ever piece of software out there)!
Do tell me there is an easier way to move the default save folder to another drive, turn off auto-saves, or redirect âtrickâ the program to save it somewhere else as u inply with your âshortcut methodâ. Thanks!
Should be as easy as cutting (or copying) the folder to the new location, deleting the old folder (if copied) and then creating the shortcut and setting the short cut target to the moved/copied folder. If that does not work, then one might have to use command line for a difference sort of shortcut, if that even exists.
my suggestion is just move all of your documents to a separate partition if it troubles you that much.
Windows 7
good. now all new things will go over there. you probably will want to copy many folders and such to the new My Documents otherwise when a game goes looking it may not find what it wants 
I just wish I could disable auto save replays. Just stopped playing after that option was gone. Itâs always the little stuff that makes a difference.
One could just periodically delete them⌠In ~10,000 matches played since alpha I have run up only ~4GB of replays. All it takes is around 5-10 seconds to delete all of them and one only has to do that every year or so.
Why should one have to delete them, when there can be (and used to be) an option to just not save them. I want that option back. I have tried locking the folder, deleting the folder, hiding the folder, but they always find a way to save. I am beginning to think I need to set my anti virus to flag all â.StormReplayâ files as viruses and delete them immediately.