Suggestion I WANT DSOCLIENT FOLDER NOT IN TEMP ELSEWHERE, HOW? DRAKENSANG USA / DRAKENSANG BRAZIL

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PLEASE HELP ME, EVERYTHING THAT IS MADE IN THE CUSTOMER FOLDER IF IT IS ON TEMP. I WANT TO PLACE ANYWHERE, I DON'T WANT TO FOLDER TEMP. I WANT SOMEWHERE ELSE, HOW ?

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Hello @RobsnGmsMz and welcome to the English forum!

First of all, I would like to ask you kindly to not post your messages in all capital letters - this is considered shouting and completely unnecessary . Also, please post messages in Portuguese only in the section dedicated to the Brazilian and Portuguese players - found here. Outside this section, please use English only. Thank you for your understanding!

As for your question, I'm afraid that is not possible - you can only install the game in its default location, so you are unable to move its directories around.
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Best regards,
teddy.bear

 

try to search "windows symlink" or "windows hard link"

I use it from years and I have a link (it isn't a simply link) in temp folder and DSO data files on D: drive

 

I actually tried this. Doesn't work.

The theory and implementation is this:
1) Move your "DSOClient" folder to another logical drive or location on the same physical disk.
. . (IE "D:\DSOClient" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\DSOClient" [ <-- aka "%programfiles(x86)%\DSOClient"] )
2) Open a command prompt and type: mklink /j %temp%\DSOClient D:\DSOClient
3) When DSO updates, it "feeds" thru the Temp folder to your real D drive folder.
4) Enjoy a protected Client.

Problem is that as soon as I ran Dell's "Support Assist" which has a "Clean", it deletes all the old files in the Temp folder, including the one's _not_ in the temp folder but actually on the D drive and subject to the junction link (aka Windows Soft Link), thus leaving one with an empty DSOClient folder. My thinking is that any "delete temp files" function will just as easily wipe out those currently being used but older than 2 days needed files. Thus back to a download _again_.

The "Windows Hard Link" applies to individual files, not to directories, so you would have to create one for every single file in the client directory.

 

When you use mklink for the system (Windows) "D:\DSOCLient" is in %temp% folder and it's normal otherwise Drakensang will not work.
So if you use a clean tools for %temp% it delete files also in D:\DSOCLient

Symlink don't help you in this case, you must exclude sub-directory from cleaning in your tool configuration or you must manually delete files.
I try to manually delete all in temp folder and data files in D:\DSOClient wasn't deleted but you must recreate symlink every time.
So depends how your clean tools work (scan subdir to delete files and then remove dirs or delete all files/dirs at 1 time).
If your clean tools don't delete files in D:\DSOlink yoy can create a batch files that recreate symlink with 1 click

I used /D option when I create symlink not /J that create a Junction.
Junction is similar to Symbolink link. The main difference is that you can't create a Junction to a network share

I suggest to search also "Windows Hard Link" because they can be created with same command "mklink".

 

There in lies the real problem. None of the cleaning tools has an "Exclude File/Folder" option.

If they did, I would never have tried "mklink" because it would have not been needed.

The "hard" link is _per file_! Do you know how many files are in the %temp%\DSOClient directory??? (please don't answer that question, it's rhetorical)

 

I didn't suggest to use a hard link, only search it...then when someone find microsoft mklink docs like you he can read the options.
mklink to create a link for file
mklink /D or mklink /J to create a link for directory

However I prefeer don't use tools and I make a simply powershell script to delete all files/dirs in %temp% excluding DSOClient folder
the only problem, not for me, that deleted files don't go in Recycle bin so you can't recover them.

 

You've completely missed my point. "mklink" doesn't work to protect from %temp% file deletion, which is what the original poster is after.

The real answer is DSO getting a real programmer to properly put the directory under "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)".

 

Well... But can't you disable all those tools and code a simple cleaning tool with batch?

Like:

Code:

@echo off
move %temp%\DSOClient D:\DSOtemp
del /s /q %temp%\*.*
for /d %i in (%temp%\*.*) do rmdir /s /q "%i"
move D:\DSOtemp\DSOClient %temp%

 

or simply with a modern approach

Code:

Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\Temp\*' -Recurse | Where-Object {($_.FullName -notlike "*DSOClient*")} | Remove-Item -Recurse

 

Unfortunately, no. The original poster, as well as I, have to keep a backup of the current %temp%\DSOClient directory in another location so that when out unstoppable "clean system" programs that run every month (or week) clear out the DSOClient folder, we can put it back without doing a full download. Problem is that we find out because it starts downloading again.

Now if the DSOClient was programmed properly and those files were put under one of the two "Program Files" location where they should be, then none of us would be dealing with the problem.

And you wouldn't need a "clean" batch file either.

 

No because to write in that directories the client must have admin privileges or you must execute it with Administrator role/write privileges

If a game ask me to be executed with write permission I'll uninstall it instantly.

The right location can be User Documents or Download folder where user have full rights

 

They could use %appdata% (roaming folder)... I'm not sure if it's possible when game is run from IE11, though.

 

The client is not run from IE11.

And I've had game after game after game for decades and all of them were installed under Program Files. Your "security" comment is invalid.

 

I didn't said that program that need to be run with high privileges create problem to our pc.
I said that they can do it...if I'm not 100% sure of developers I change permission only in folders used by it so client can work.
I don't give full and general administrative permission.
Same thing if a phone app ask me to access to my contacts and/or my location/gallery/etc....I unistall it immediately.

Are you sure?

 

Yes. You can run the game in browser or in client.

I've run the client inside a Virtual machine that didn't have IE11.