I have recently gotten my hands on a new computer (MSI G Series GS70 STEALTH-037 – specs below if relevant) that has a Solid State Drive (SSD) that goes along with my hard drive (HDD). I would like to move Minecraft to the SSD is because it will be a lot smoother and faster than on the hard drive.
How can I move/transfer/change Minecraft from using the typical root it goes to in the %appdata%
folder to the SSD drive?
PC Specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.4 GHz (6 MB Cache)
- RAM: 12 GB DDR3L SDRAM
- Drives: 750 GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive, 128 GB Solid-State Drive
- Display/Graphics: 17.3-Inch Screen, NVIDIA GeForce GTX860M with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
- OS: Windows 8.1
Best Answer
There are 3 easy steps you need to take to move Minecraft to your SSD.
1. Find your
.minecraft
folder.Your
.minecraft
folder should be located in%appdata%\.minecraft
on your computer.2. Move your
.minecraft
folder.Copy the entire
.minecraft
folder to your SSD. Lets assume your SSD isD:
and you copy the folder to the directoryD:\Games\.minecraft
3. Let Minecraft know.
You finally have to tell the Minecraft launcher that the game is now located on
D:
. Open your Minecraft launcher and click Edit Profile. When the dialogue box opens, tick the Game Directory check box and type in the new directory:You can check that you put in the correct directory by clicking the "Open Game Dir" button.
Click Save Profile and your done! Minecraft will now be loading from your SSD.