With how many issues seem to be caused by OneDrive and whatnot due to player's files being stored in the Documents directory, would it be feasible to migrate those files to a directory that it doesn't touch?
With Microsoft pushing more and more for these "features" to be enabled by default (or worse, mandatory), such a change should help future proof the safety of people's files.
#Migrate files away from Documents to avoid future issues
coral kite
shut goblet
I could be wrong here but i believe they have tried
If it was something that could be done id expect it to be a priority with how much issues they know it can cause
tropic aurora
Documents is one of the more accessible locations
It'd be more of a pain to go to AppData
Either way, you can already move file location #troubleshooting message
coral kite
That wouldn't be a problem if, say, you have a button in game to immediately open the file location
north gulch
Or just:
A) disable any and all cloud services (the best option)
B) occasionally move a copy of what saved stuff you have and move it to a second folder elsewhere, or onto a flash drive
pale abyss
Maybe I'm missing something, what exactly stops one from just making a symlink in Documents to newly established AppData location?
And having a migration script to move all profile data over to new location in AppData replacing the old folder with a symlink to it for easier access?
coral kite
Yeah, I don't know why it would necessarily be an issue to implement something to do that
The problem with this stuff is that the people who suffer from it are most likely the ones unaware it can happen in the first place, so just leaving it to users to sort it out kinda seems like it's just letting it happen to random people
pale abyss
No, I mean put that script into the game itself, so it happens automatically