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The Entry Point for Making Things in VRChat
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Change default location for projects created by the creator companion #319

Open X606 opened 1 year ago

X606 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently the vrchat creator companion uses the %LocalAppData%/VRChatCreatorCompanion/Repos directory by default when creating a project. This causes issues when resetting windows using the "reset PC but keep personal files" option since windows doesn't treat the %LocalAppData% directory as personal files and wipes it.

Describe the solution you'd like Moving the default location to somewhere windows considers "personal files". A few suggestions might be somewhere in documents or AppData/LocalLow (which windows apparently doesn't wipe)

Describe alternatives you've considered Other solutions might include:

Additional context Lost so much work :(

nil-vr commented 6 months ago

This also affects backups, and it's a more serious problem. When you create a backup, the files go into a hidden folder (AppData) and there's no way to get to them without knowing that's where they went. Projects and backups should be in the Documents folder, not AppData, but maybe Microsoft ruined that by forcing One Drive on everybody, in which case the home folder would be a better place.