Change location of Unreal Engine

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Hi! I want to change the location of the whole Engine. I want to move it to my other drive. Any helps would be great!

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i think that if you want to keep the like with the launcher and marketplace, you have to uninstall the engine, and reinstall it in new location.

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Yeah thanks I did as you said cuz I didn’t find any other solution. Anyways thanks for the help!

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Move UE4 to a new location.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EpicGames\Unreal Engine\4.27]
"InstalledDirectory"="D:\\UE4\\UE_4.27"

Edit, Save this as .reg and merge to registry.

Then open:

C:\ProgramData\Epic\UnrealEngineLauncher\LauncherInstalled.dat

Edit path that matches your moved build:

	{
		"InstallLocation": "D:\\UE4\\UE_4.27",
		"NamespaceId": "ue",
		"ItemId": "fbc8f00a16b9411989ae12a00060ff34",
		"ArtifactId": "UE_4.27",
		"AppVersion": "4.27.0-16565192+++UE4+Release-4.27-Windows",
		"AppName": "UE_4.27"
	}

It will work even if you have only those rows:

	{
		"InstallLocation": "D:\\UE4\\UE_4.27",
		"NamespaceId": "ue",
		"AppName": "UE_4.27"
	}
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Of many tutorials on how to do this - this is the only one that has worked for me. Just moved my 5.3 install successfully!

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