{"id":37386,"date":"2013-01-28T01:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T01:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lolr.de\/?p=37386"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:58:49","slug":"moving-the-battlefield-3-game-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/2013\/01\/28\/moving-the-battlefield-3-game-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Move The Battlefield 3 Game Folder To a New Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/battlefield-3_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-37387\" alt=\"ho to move the battlefield 3 folder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/battlefield-3_0-640x300.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, if you want to clean up your workspace, or switch to a faster harddrive like an SSD you might want to move the Battlefield 3 (or any other Origin game) folder to a new location .<\/p>\n<p>EA does not do a good job at telling us how to do so, nor does it seem to be intended \ud83d\ude42 But it works and it is simpler than you might expect. It&#8217;s just a few simple steps.<\/p>\n<h2>Moving the Game Folder<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Start Origin and log in<\/li>\n<li>Go to settings and change the folder to the new location<br \/>\n(or reinstall it and set the location as you want if you are setting up a clean system)<\/li>\n<li>Right click on your game and start the download<\/li>\n<li>Cancel the download via the progress bar in the bottom<\/li>\n<li>Now exit Origin and completely shut it down (in the taskbar next to the clock). It may not even reside in the systray!<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the newly selected Download location<\/li>\n<li>Copy your old game folder to the new location<\/li>\n<li>Restart Origin and start the download again. The trick is,&nbsp;IT DOES NOT REALLY DOWNLOAD THE GAME AGAIN, but it scans the new folder, finds your files and will switch to install mode after a few seconds<\/li>\n<li>Your installation will be checked and you are good to go \ud83d\ude42&nbsp;Thats it \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, if you want to clean up your workspace, or switch to a faster harddrive like an SSD you might want to move the Battlefield 3 (or any other Origin game) folder to a new location . EA does not do a good job at telling us how to do so, nor does it seem&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":37387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1492,916,1933,29822,28548,27940,27941,1222,2023,28549],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-37386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-battlefield","tag-bf3","tag-drive","tag-ea","tag-folder","tag-guide","tag-how-to","tag-move","tag-origin","tag-ssd","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37386"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=37386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}