Application directory/Changing the save directory: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:50, 3 March 2016

By default the save location is at this path:

To store just your saves in something like Dropbox, do the following while the game isn't running:

For our examples I'll assume I've created a directory in my Dropbox named factorio and created another directory inside that called saves:

Open a command prompt as administrator: Start Menu->All Programs->Accessories->Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator
Change to the factorio directory: cd \<install directory> or cd \Users\<username>\AppData\factorio
Make the link: mklink /D saves D:\Dropbox\factorio\saves
If done correctly, should look like this: 05/06/2014 07:57 PM <SYMLINKD> saves [d:\Dropbox\factorio\saves]

Open Terminal
Change to the directory: cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/factorio/"
Create the symlink: ln -s ~/Dropbox/factorio/saves
If done correctly, ls -alF should show something like: lrwxr-xr-x 1 username staff 37 May 6 17:40 saves -> /Users/username/Dropbox/factorio/saves

Don't load the same save on two different computers at the same time

Dropbox will generate a sync error and create alternate files, other sync programs may have different behaviors.

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 * Windows (Zip file): <code><install directory>\saves</code>
 * Windows (Installer): <code>C:\Users\<username>\AppData\factorio\saves</code>
+* Windows (Steam): <code>C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\factorio\saves</code>
 * OSX: <code>~/Library/"Application Support"/factorio/saves</code>
 * Linux: ~/.factorio/saves