# Changing download folder in Unreal launcher !!!

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**Created:** [August 1, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/changing-download-folder-in-unreal-launcher/37261 "2015-08-01T10:19:31Z")\
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there is a section about making symbolic links and the such. This is what to do after a fresh install:

- download and install client

- open command prompt as an administrator.

- Say if I want to link my engine download into the file directory on my D drive “D:/Some Name/Put Engine Here” I would use the code:

mklink /D “C:\Program Files/Epic Games/4.8” “D:/Some Name/Put Engine Here”

- For the downloaded content (stuff in your vault) to move it into a folder called “D:/Some Name/Put Vault Here” I used the code:

mklink /D “C:/Program Files/Epic Games/Launcher/VaultCache” “D:/Some Name/Put Vault Here”

- then go into the D pathway and create the folder “Put Vault Here” in the “Some Name” folder

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## NOTES:

For ease sake though I went into my D drive and created the path “D:/Program Files/Epic Games/Launcher” and just mirrored the save locations to what they would be like on the C drive.

Before you actually create the link you need to delete the file in the C drive. What I mean is if you are making the link to the VaultCache folder, you need to delete that folder in the C pathway. After you create the link, you need to create a new folder in the D pathway.

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