Move beatmaps and configurations to another location

I want to ask how to store beatmaps and configurations not in %Appdata%. That’s because my C Drive is a small SSD, and beatmaps really take up a lot of space. Also, writing these files to %Appdata% will make osu!lazer not portable. The current stable osu! release is portable so that I can put it in a USB drive.

I do not care about potential privacy or safety problem about these files. Even if I do, I would change ACL by myself.

Currently my workaround is to create a symlink with mklink, but I want an official solution to it. What about checking whether <installDir/Data> exists? If it does, launch osu!lazer in portable mode, read and write all the beatmaps and configurations to <installDir/Data> . Or, what about implementing a command-line switch to specify where these files are, like --user-data-dir="path/to/user data" in Google Chrome?

[peppy]

no. you can use symlinks in the mean time

[insomnyawolf]

Quick Tutorial

If you are on windows:

• Win+R => Type “cmd” => hit enter
• A black popup will appear, there paste mklink /J "%AppData%\osu\files" "CHANGEME"
• Hit enter

If you are on linux

• open a terminal anywhere
• Paste there ln -s ~/.local/share/osu CHANGEME
• Hit enter

Remember to put the path that you want where it says CHANGEME