Have you run out of room on drive C for your games? Is your life in need of saveing? What you need is a program called " Link Shell Extention". It's super easy to use, and with it you can move anything ( that can be moved) from anywhere to anywhere, and it will still be found by whatever is looking for it. It does this by creating a 'Symbolic Link" in the place you moved the file from. The link itself has no size, and is only a glorified shortcut. I moved all my games and most other programs to drive E some time ago and it works seamlessly, I've never had a problem.
[edit] I just reviewed the link info for Shell Link Extension I gave and I have to add that I used only the "Symbolic Link" not the "Junction" or anything else. Scroll down the directions page until you come to " SymbolicLink with Vista and Windows7/8/10 ". Unfortunately the instruction given make it sound way more complicated than it is.
How I did it; 1. Copy and paste the folder you moving to where you want it.( eg. "Bethesda Softworks/Fallout 3" from drive C to Programs (or whatever) drive E. 2. Remove "Bethesda Softworks" completely from drive C folder. 3. Right click on the new drive E "Bethesda Softworks" folder and select "Select Link Source". 4. Go back to where "Bethesda Softworks" ' was located in drive C, in this exampe; C:\Program Files (x86). Right click inside this folder and select "Drop As" ....left click "Symbolic Link". and you are done.
You should now have a link with a blue shortcut arrow and the same name as the moved folder. Try a test on a small folder with files before doing anything significant to make sure you are doing it right. As always do a backup in case something is not right.
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